Being new to Linux, I can say that the installation was fairly painless and
easy to follow along, EXCEPT for the fact that it installs so much... There
are programs installed on my machine that I have no idea what they are, what
they do, whether or not I actually need them, or even where they are. SOme
type of detailed information as to what actually gets installed, what it's
useful for, and what effect it has (if any) by removing it. ( BTW, an added
bonus would be: in kpackage, if you're try to remove a RPM that has
dependancies, it'd be nice to have an option to remove the depandancies
along with it... )
True, I can go through the expert installation and go through each and every
item in the package list (which I actually started but got real tired of the
tediousness of it...) but this isn't very efficient, not to mention the
actual descriptions didn't make a whole lot of sense (they were awfully
techie).
I'm not asking for a 'basic configuration' installation at all, just the
presentation of better information to the users about what he/she is
installing. The 'basic configuration' or 'quick install' options others are
suggesting doesn't appeal to me. For example, in the options available now
you can choose server, but if you do, you don't get an XWindows stuff... in
a real life environment this may be necessary or more efficient, but as
someone who was just learning about Linux, I wanted it to be a server, but I
also wanted XWindows... (go figure...) A basic configuration doesn't help
people 'LEARN' linux, which is what I was hoping to do.
> We (Mandrakesoft) are starting internal discussions about future of
> our distributions NOW. We want you to take part in the process of
> improving our next distro.
>
> - NOW is a time to ask us whatever you want: tell us what you like, tell
> us what you hate, tell us what you dream of!
> - NOW is a time for you to influence the future company decisions - start
> thinking, and if you come up with a briliant idea, post it here.
