On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Oron Peled wrote:
> On Sunday 01 February 2004 11:18, Adir Abraham wrote:
> > [a lot of valid points]
> > ... You can conclude what happens with faster
> > machines or those that include rich hardware features. I also assume that
> > we'll have faster machines next year, so it will not take more than 40
> > minutes in average.
>
> Just adjusting some over-optimism: installation is very I/O bounded, and
> disk speed is advancing very slow (comparing to Moore's law for CPU).
>
> So unless next year you'll have everybody with SCSI disks, you won't
> see a lot of speedup.
>
> Still, I completely agree that the ~5GB full install is a wise decision in
> the context of install parties to newbies who would have hard time
> adding software. Worse, the typical newbie would assume that
> if some 'Z' software isn't on her system -- than Linux doesn't have 'Z'
> at all (actually, if an icon for 'Z' isn't on the menu than Linux doesn't
> have 'Z' software :-)
>
That's quite unlikely. If people see that 'Z' is not available on Windows,
they don't assume that Windows does not have 'Z' at all. They go to the
Internet and find it. We can assume this will be the case for Linux as
well.
The best thing we can do is explain them how they can install more
software, update their system, etc. Otherwise:
1. They eventually will find something that isn't on Linux, and won't know
what to do.
2. They will cause their system to become vulnerable eventually. (unless
we assume that absolutely no security bugs will be discovered from the
time we install it until infinity).
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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