Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > [ snip ] > >> > I think so many Debian-ites have not needed to install for such a long >> > time that they've forgotten what it is like. Perhaps that's why the >> > installer is so bare bones. >> >> Pretty sure you've nailed it there. > > I disagree. I think the debian installer has always been minimalist > because in the beginning all debian users were the kind of people who > knew their hardware inside and out, knew what was going to be asked > and what the responses should be, and thus did not care about fancy > interfaces and sensible prompts.
Err, I don't think any installer existed in the beginning of Debian. And, it took at least a few years before installers for any distro began to get fancy. These days, I think the installer is minimalistic because it has to be ported to so many arches (11 for woody). It's significantly more difficult to write a fancy installer that also works on all the arches Debian supports. -- My secret to happiness... is that I have a heart of a 12-year-old boy. It's over here in a jar. Would you like to see it?
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