Quoting "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030724 15:08]: > > >From the user point of view, the new debian-installer looks almost > > > like boot-floppies (plus some bits of hardware autodetection). > > So, quite no step has been done on the user friendliness side. > > First of all there might be some deficits in the old installer, > but it's look is definitly not user-unfriendly.
... > Debian-installer makes it also easier to get graphical frontends. But > I consider this more an evidence of good modularity than a direct > criteria for quality. > > (But perhaps I'm old-fashioned. I'm placing a newbie before a computer > and look under what circumstances he is able to get something done, > if I want to get an indicator for usefulnes. And not showing screen- > shots to windows-users and looking if they sheer.) Sure. Many Debian people/users don't care for having a userfriendly installer: they want to install the base system and upgrade ever and ever. I've been pretty happy with boot-floppies so far. The priority in the installer revamping effort was to create something more maintainble that you can easily/quickly adapt to new debian releases. But my point was the new debian-installed is not going to look like the current Mandrake 9.1 nor RedHat 9.0 (I've recently installed), at least for sarge. -- Jérôme Marant
