On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 11:44:32PM -0400, Hoyt wrote:
> Apparently this is the claim of a new distro - MaxOS - just 12 minutes from
> show to go.
>
> It'll be interesting to see just how they install.
I can speak from experience here since I installed it one machine and
watched it get installed on another while talking around with the CEO
and the President (helps when they're in the same city). It does do
as it claims... as soon as you select a partition, you walk away and
come back in 12 minutes.
*However* the drawbacks are all packages are pre-selected for you,
you can't do any fine-tuning until you get into the system, and the
installer is quite ugly (way too many flourecent colors!). Beyond
that, however, I think MaxOS will be the new newbies distro because
of it's super-easy install.
Mind you, if Mandrake tried to do the same thing, we'd lose many many
users. MaxOS is so simple as to be *too* simple. And it only comes
with KDE (ugh). No GNOME. =(
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