Making it easy - Automatic download and install

[Sivan Green]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 21:16 +0100, Bastian Doetsch wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 04.11.2004, 08:11 -0800 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> > On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:06:04PM -0800, Joe Crawford wrote:
> > 
> > > So going back to the nvidia driver. All the utilities in the world
> > > won't make it easy. If the user isn't prompted during install, (or
> > > once they've enter the gui) with a dialog box that says something
> > > like:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > #################
> > > Install Nvidia Video Drivers?
> > > 
> > > The software necessary for your video card to run its fastest can be
> > > automatically downloaded and installed for you.
> > > 
> > > It has restrictive licensing and is not open source like the rest of the system.
> > > 
> > > I will however make your system much faster displaying and working
> > > with graphics, especially 3D graphics.
> > > 
> > > Would you like to automatically download and install this software?
> > > #################
> > 
> > There are a few simple reasons why we don't do this.  For most users, the
> > free nv driver is more than sufficient.  The proprietary nvidia driver
> > causes programs to unexpectedly fail, crashes the X server, panics the
> > kernel, and hangs the system.
> 
> I totally agree to Matt's opionion concerning graphics drivers. Got a
> Radeon 9600XT (btw. working flawlessly with ATI restricted drivers), but
> don't really need it. And I don't really know anyone, who needs strong
> graphics acceleration who wouldn't be able to figure out how to do it. 
> 
> Concerning Java and Flash, I must agree to Joe. It would definitely be
> very nice for the average user to have this auto-installed.

Maybe we can follow on netbeans.org automated script, modifiy it to
conform to the systems policy, and package it accordingly. this would
make us an automated installation for both the java sdk, and and an
excellent java ide IMHO.

Sivan