If youre looking for a no brainer install, try OpenBSD. Installed in
10 minutes from the command line. In addition, the network is
configured too, that is if you know your IP address and the DNS server
addresses you are going to use. All done very quickly and NO GYI's.
Timothy
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On 5/15/2002 at 11:01 AM Craig Zeigler wrote:
>I really think the install should be a quick and painless thing. The
GUI
>makes this possible and as someone already mentioned, the hardware
auto
>detect is important.
>
>The primary emphasis should be on what you do after the system is up
and
>running. No one should spend their days installing and reinstalling an
>OS. The OS should be up and running in user 30 minutes, and then you
can
>do whatever you need to.
>
>I recently did a SuSE 8.0 install, and was very impressed. I have been
>using Mandrake for a while now, and thought I'd give SuSE a try. The
>install was excellent (IMHO far superior to mandrakes), it game up and
>was attractive, fairly simple to use, and is very stable. My hat goes
>off to them.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matt Miller [mailto:mmiller1@mptotalcare.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 9:25 AM
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Suspicions confirmed!
>
>
>On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 18:55, Paul M Foster wrote:
>> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:00:26AM -0400, Timothy wrote:
>>
>> > Steven;
>> >
>> > I know I'm taking the risk of being accused of trolling BUT IMHO
Red
>> > Hat has gone the way of Mickey$oft. First, the emphasis on GUI's
>and
>> > the denigration of the command line configuration.
>>
>> Welcome to the world of computers in the 21st century. Red Hat's not
>> alone in this. Even Debian is using a GUI install these days, from
>what
>> I hear.
>
>Untrue. Debian's install is still as unappealing as ever -- it's a
>curses like menu install, a far cry from Red Hat, Mandrake or Suse's
GUI
>installers.
>Most people are dissuaded from Debian for this reason alone -- the
>installer lacks any autodetect features like other Linux distros and
>assumes the user has a decent knowledge of the system's hardware when
>installing. Too bad, since apt-get, dpkg, and dselect are by far
(IMHO)
>the best package management tools for any of the available distros.
>
>--
>Matt Miller
>Systems Administrator
>MP TotalCare, INC
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