> Agreed. I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux on a machine (using the > a new installer), and it wasn't that much better.
Sorry to just jump in on the conversation, but I'll just say a couple of things. Firstly Ubuntu's installer is a *much* simpler version of Debian's. I think it's exactly the same, with less questions. Then again, I thought Debian's installer was okay, so we might disagree on that as well. As for Ututo, when I made an (admittedly not very committed) attempt at installing it, I didn't get past the installer. I think this *might* have just been one bad experience, but I couldn't figure out whether the partitioner had actually written to the hdd or not (it hadn't), and then I got a whole host of other random errors, which I'd never got with any other distro on the same hardware. Unsure if this is the installer or just Ututo. Finally, I don't know how you feel about graphical installers (obviously with an option to go text-based, sorry if you've already discussed this), but Fedora (and BLAG, a 100% free distro based on it) use a great graphical installer called Anaconda. Information and screenshots available at http://fedora.redhat.com/About/Projects/anaconda-installer/ . IMHO it's the easiest installer I've used. I think Ubuntu was also making an attempt to move over to a graphical installer for the next release, though I'm not sure what they plan on using. Thanks, Trevor Vallender. _______________________________________________ gnu-system-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss
