Hey all. Would a CD based software installer be useful? needed? wanted? crap?
As in, you pop in a cd, it autoplays (if your computer is set to do this), your browser pops up with a friendly page that lets you browse the software available on the CD with descriptions, screenshots, and maybe a mini-review or something and to install you just click on the install button? Thoughts? I am not suggesting anything professional. Just a homegrown effort to provide some software on a CD with a dead easy simple installer. Webpage, screenshots/description/mini-review maybe and a install button. Maybe a link to the homepage for the software and maybe a link to a forum thread to discuss the software or rate the software or both.... Just ISOs you can download or order for a couple bucks that provide software packages on a cd with a simple front-end. For a couple extra bucks you can request a CD with certain packages on it. Maybe have a office ISO, game ISO, graphics ISO, multimedia ISO or something... Actually I could have a (install from cd) button and a (install from the net) button. It would simply be software that is currently in the repo or that I can ensure would install cleanly. It would not provide anything that synaptic does not but it would be a bit simpler and no changing sources.list. It would not be a real application. It would simply be a page that called scripts that used dpkg/apt to install stuff silently and created a desktop icon. I just figure that some (new possibly clueless) users think that synaptic is too confusing and does not provide enough information? Users are use to popping a cd in and having it pop up and have clicky buttons to install stuff. I actually came up with this a couple/few years ago and dismissed it as stupid so never did anything with it. I figured nobody would want to sue this when we have synaptic. Also being discussed here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=361629 and here http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=12314 and on the gnewsense forum http://wiki.gnewsense.org/ForumMain/CDBasedAppInstaller-Feedback Thanks for any thoughts, ideas, or comments! Dean _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
