At Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:20:07 -0400, alex wrote: > > Dominique Devriese wrote: > > Bob Tilley writes: > > > > >I would like to wet my feet in the Open Source pool. Can > > >anyone suggest any needy Projects? I can do C, C++, Pascal, > > >Assembly, etc. and would like to put my talents to work to > > >give something back to the Community that has given my > > >desktop so much. > > > > A project that I personally think is important and would be > > fun to work on, is the Debian installer. It will be the > > first portable installer in any GNU/Linux distro, fills a > > very real need of the Debian project, and looks very > > promising to me.. > > > > Maybe you can build a KDE based front-end for it, or > > something like that ?
The last thing we need. A desktop-specific installer. If turns out to be real good, some Gnome guy is going to want to port it. Net result: duplication of effort. > Speaking as one who has fumbled Debian's install several times, > I concur. It seems that the install process is overly and > unecessarily complicated. It wants you to make decisions that > could just as well be made after you have a minimum basic > operating system running that would let you customize your > computer according to your needs instead of doing it even > before Debian starts to install. For example, why should you > need even consider if whether or not to configure for > networking during the install procedure if it be done after a > basic Debian is running? > > Compare Debian's install with the one used by KNOPPIX and > you'll see what I mean. > > I'm sure there'd be many Linux fans who would really appreciate > a simpler Debian install procedure. Well, yes, but an installer isn't something you use everyday. I haven't seen the Debian installer in almost three years. Perhaps you mean package manager? And between the three of them, apt-get, dselect, and aptitude answer every but the most casual user's needs. I'm overwhelmed by the sheer number of *n*x desktop or windowing environments. OTOH I see only two programs and a hack that will let you "burn" a DVD on *n*x. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
