Some critics about Ubuntu / New Installing

[Nikolai Prokoschenko]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:04:04PM -0500, David Walker wrote:

> >Yes, although it was deferred beyond Hoary because the work involved is
> >very substantial.

> Don't other distributions, Linux Mandrake or RedHat(Anaconda) have an 
> open-sourced based installer that we can base it off of.  That would 
> lessen the substantial portion of designing and building it.  I mean if 

The installer _has_ actually been designed from scratch. It's called the
Debian Installer and is pretty modular. It _will_ have a graphical
installer at some point of time - it would be just a frontend, like the
text-based is now. While integrating Anaconda would take much more time
than getting a gtk+-fb-gui to the d-i.

> Ubuntu is for the new user I would think we would have more friendlier 
> installer.

It's friendly enough I think. It's all about taste and what your
definition of "friendly" is. And I won't refer to the famous quote about
Linux being user-friendly ;)

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Nikolai Prokoschenko 
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