> I agree. We need a 'newbie' install option that makes all the technical > decisions for you, as well as the other install options for those with more > knowledge. Do you view a RH installation as being this sort of installation? What about Corel? The problem I see with these installations is that if autodetection fails in any way, the user has no recourse. > Also, we could use a more 'user-friendly' way for the 'newbie' to install > additional packages at a later date. An option to automagically This is possible if you restrict your view to them actually buying them (or getting them) from a single place and restrict what applications you're talking about. It's easy to control installation if you're holding hte proprietary keys to setup/installation but given the nature of open source and the free range of application developers, you're asking a lot to generate standard installations. It might be nice if we could get the websites to better label whether this or that rpm requires compilation or not though. > Another member of the group recommended taking out the repeated packages > with similar functionality - I don't think that would work. There would be > far too many holy wars re-started as to what is taken out. A better Agreed but the problem could be partially solved by presenting ONLY the KDE tool suite and/or GNOME suite. They could stick vi, vim, and emacs on the HD but not stick them on the menus. It gets downright overwhelming for a newbie to find no less than 8 basic editors and half a dozen formatting tools on his menu system when all he want to do is write a note. Cheers --- Larry
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