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On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Jan Ramon wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Bill Wohler wrote:
>
> > Would anyone else like to see a "Sort by section" major sort in
> > dselect?
> >
> I think it's a good idea. It makes installation easier.
>
For an easier installation "dselect" needs a major rewrite IMHO. From all
Linux distributions i installed until now Debian was the most
counterintuitive i've stumbled over so far. I used the german distribution
from S.u.S.E. when it was still based on Slackware. They have an
installation and configuration tool called YAST (Yet Another Setup Tool)
which is quite intuitive and useable. Just a few days ago i installed out
of pure curiosity RedHat-3.03 on another partition of my harddisk and was
almost shocked by it's straightforwardness and ease of installation as
compared to my really hard time in getting Debian-1.1.6 up and running.
Probably i would have given up trying something else if i didn't have had
some former experience with Linux upon installation of Debian.
I think it would raise Debians popularity significantly if it would be
reasonably easy to install for lesser experienced people. RedHat almost
strikes me perfect in this regard and i would probably rather recommend
RedHat than Debian to a clueless newbie. Isn't it possible to get some
inspiration out of RedHat's setup procedure?
I'm not in the position to write a more decent installation tool because i
don't even know about shell programming. Therefore it's probably most easy
to complain about things i actually do not understand critisizing other's
wonderful contributions. But speaking from a standpoint of the average
user the perspective is definitely different.
Cheers, Paul *8^)
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Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies
Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany
Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/
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