On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 02:42:50PM -0500, Don Wright wrote: > I understand that, and did not take it as flaming. I even share a > preference for 'parallel' setup screens as opposed to 'serial' > questions, but understand some of the constraints of D-I make this more > difficult, such as the limited space on a "businesscard" image or the > performance penalty of a screen refresh over a serial link. > > All Linux has much more in common as family than with other operating > systems, or even different releases from the same company. However, when > you come into the locker room of a football team and express admiration > for another team, you should expect some 'trash talk' about their > weaknesses as well. > > Mostly I replied because the Debian Project (which includes Debian > Installer) seems to have many goals and constraints that other distros > have not shared. This leads to design choices for the installer that > make it appear less sophisticated in the eyes of some reviewers, and > public opinion about Debian has suffered from that. The fact that > installing Linux is increasingly a one-time event for many distros has > been lost amid much discussion of how to make this one-time event look > good to users of other operating systems, especially those where reboot, > reinstall, replace is common. > > Over the years I have watched D-I go through a gradual process of > continuous improvement, and certainly expect more changes in the future. > The graphical installer interface, which improved support for some > languages and managed to consolidate a few prompts, is one example. If a > better presentation can be arranged without hurting the capabilities I > mentioned earlier, I'm sure that will be tested and accepted as such > contributions have been in the past.
I wonder how the suse installer would get along with brltty or a screen reader. And d-i certainly works quite well, certainly much nicer than boot-floppies used to be (especially when it came to trying to modify the code). The one thing I remember from using the suse installer once a number of years ago was that doing a netinstall it had no ftp servers or anything listed. The user had to look that up themselves and type it in. What a pain that was. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110902202937.gx15...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca