[ale] Back to the Future!

John Mills jmmills at telocity.com
Sat Mar 30 16:10:02 EST 2002


David -

A religious issue, as you say.

When I'm a beginner I like an approach that offers me reasonable
choices. As I know more, I like to steer more. CLI installers are fine for
me, but I need to be holding some reference material at the same time.

On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, David S. Jackson wrote:

> Btw, just a personal note here.  I think graphical installers are
> sorta like editors and oses:  there are religious feelings about
> them.  If I see a graphical installer, my first thought is, "What
> are they hiding?"  I like to see kernel messages and such.  But
> /stand/sysinstall is far from nostalgia; it's bleeding edge
> without widgets.  I for one really prefer the well-thought-out
> textual interface to the clicky beeby interfaces of other
> installers.  
 
> (And hey!  Slackware setup still has a textual interface, doesn't
> it?  Please don't tell me that's gone in 8.0?!?! ;0>  )

Dunno - I haven't been there [Slackware] in a while.

 - John Mills


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