-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 One note on the installation tools.
Yes, we NEED more installation tools. And more distros. Here's why. Apt was at least partly created to address shortcomings with RPM. RPM was created to address shortcomings with source installs (or what ever method was before RPMs). Same thing with Portage. Debian was created to embrace the "free as in speach". Gentoo was created for the tinkerers, Ubuntu for the "average" joe. Linspire for the home user/neophyte. (I've way over simplified this...) What we are seeing is evolution in action. Good traits from distro's and package managers get adopted by the others. Bad traits get recognized more quickly, and a new solution is evolved to address that. If we apply the idea of "one distro only" to cars, we'd all be driving the same brand/model of car - which by current standards would likely be a Toyota sedan. But this sedan may not work well for farmers, or industrial workers, or those who do cross country driving, etc. We NEED different flavors to suit different needs. And these different flavors add to the evolutionary effect, which benefits everyone in the long run. The mono culture might make things easier in a lot of ways. But we'd then be stuck with something like Vista (or worse yet, MS ME or DOS) and getting DRM rammed down our throats with no say in the matter. My thoughts. Shawn Kin C Wong wrote: >> Maybe I don't get it (certainly possible if not likely), but what is the >> problem that needs to be solved? There are already GUI installers that >> are more than capable. Adept in particular needs to sound less tech >> like (the word tag should not be in the UI, just my thoughts) but I am >> not sure we need a new generation of installers, just more polish on the >> ones we have (the GUI ones in particular, aptitude and apt-get are >> already fantastic and mature for the CLI inclined). >> > Maybe you are right, that is all that is required. Already with the > ability to package an application as a distro, the user of live cds and > the vmware type appliances with their associated free players are > already leaps ahead in enabling users to make decisions based on an > experience rather than be impeded by their technical ineptitude. > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFy57YMia5XCIAQC8RAqW8AJ9DZgl8j5weCTu1wHaZdkfvuEyDigCeNQNL Frv6AqUH332k+w10J3irdIk= =YtPS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
