Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is a revamped image with a new logo and an easy to use GUI > installer one can use if Debian is an issue. It's a fairly large > project. Here's a link to it: > > http://ubuntu.com. > > (I notice, when checking that home page that it seems like it's been > taken over by Dell.)
Man, you aren't kidding there. For a second I thought the site had redirected me to dell.com. ... > If you want a friendly GUI and a nifty and easy install, go for another > distro. There's a reason there's so many distros out there and it's > too much to ask for one distro to try to hit more than one or two > focused markets. I can agree with this to a point, I also can't say I am too excited about any possible reimaging campaigns either. I certainly am not particularly interested in mascots. However, it seems to me that you may be overstating things a bit. Why are friendly GUIs and stability mutually exclusive? Isn't that a bit like saying a well built truck can't be attractive? It may be true that they usually aren't, but I just am not too sure that things actually have to be that way. And I don't think an image revamp, dangerous as it may be in the end, has to mean a change in these other issues. Consider that FreeBSD did actually do this very thing in updating their logo and such, and are still stable and continue to be stupidly impossible to install. I actually thought I was pretty old school after several years of using Slackware partly because I loved the installer, but I was simply not ready for the evil of FreeBSD. I think what they have isn't so much an installer as it is a test to make sure you really want to run their OS enough to satisfy them. Well, they win. ;-) Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
