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[Sinner from the Prairy]

A Dilluns 29 Octubre 2001 08:32 pm, vàreu escriure:
> Hi Roy,

>     I work for Red Hat on the installer (and various config tools), and I'm
> curious as to what people like better about the Mandrake installer.  At the
> end of every release, I do a comparative analysis on the installers for
> many other OSes (various Linux distros, Solaris x86, various Windows
> versions, etc.) to try to determine areas in which we are lacking.  I do
> this because I want our installer (and our OS as a whole) to be the best
> one available.
>
> Specifically, how is Mandrake's installer easier to use?  How does it help
> you better understand what you are installing?
>
> So I guess the question isn't just to Roy, but to everybody:
>   What can we do to make the Red Hat Linux installer better?

Hi Brent,

I work at the test lab with Glen and Brock. I guess that I have used anaconda 
a lot in the last couple of months. 

Anyway, 

I think that anaconda is too similar to a Windows program. Even Microsot 
Windows installer (at least on Win98) was "different" from a Windows program.

Mandrake installer is different from Windows programs. It gives the "feel" to 
a novice Linux user that Lnux it is very different from WIndows... yet it is 
easy, flexible, powerfull and easy. And it's fresh.

So, it is nothing a "technical" thing.

Well, almost. I like Mandrake installer because it supports a far greater 
number of "minor" languages. Including mine  *grin*

Also, I like the "select between recomended, intermidiate, advanced" install 
modes. This means less or more questions to answers. For a novice, the 
recomended should mean workstation install, only 1 desktop, and a few 
questions about install target (selection of disc, partitions...). For an 
advanced user, all kind of checkboxes/selections... and little-to-none "Are 
You Sure?" questions. Afterall, is an advanced user.

Then, the "install all, minimal install" checkboxes at the *begining* of the 
list of choices.

My 2 cents.



Salut,
Sinner
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