[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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