Re: The new installer

2012-09-24 Thread Karel Volný
Hi, What kind of impression do you think people get when, after hearing that Fedora defines itself as bleeding edge technology, they are presented with an installer interface designed and written more than ten years ago? and the wheel was invented more than ten *thousand* years ago is that

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread David Lehman
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 14:07 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Had a frustrating experience with the fat cow installer. Something in one of the selections I made had a missing dependency (or whatever). Missing dependencies are a part of developmental installs. What was most

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 09/11/2012 08:07 AM, David Lehman wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 14:07 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Had a frustrating experience with the fat cow installer. Something in one of the selections I made had a missing dependency (or whatever). Missing dependencies are a part of

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread drago01
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com wrote: A processor upgrade usually demands a fresh install. No it doesn't. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread Frank Murphy
On 11/09/12 18:24, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Then there is a question of prominently showing substandard software to the public. We all know about first impressions in social settings. In operating systems it is the installer that makes the first impressions. Chuck, it's

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 09/11/2012 10:28 AM, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com wrote: A processor upgrade usually demands a fresh install. No it doesn't. I have had enough times when upgrading CPU and motherboard bricked a working system that I assume a

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread drago01
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com wrote: On 09/11/2012 10:28 AM, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com wrote: A processor upgrade usually demands a fresh install. No it doesn't. I have had

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 10:24 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: On 09/11/2012 08:07 AM, David Lehman wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 14:07 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Had a frustrating experience with the fat cow installer. Something in one of the selections I made had a

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 09/11/2012 10:58 AM, David Lehman wrote: On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 10:24 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: On 09/11/2012 08:07 AM, David Lehman wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 14:07 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Had a frustrating experience with the fat cow installer.

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread Carl G
Chuck, I don't know what you're trying to say/achieve here... 2012/9/11 Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com On 09/11/2012 10:58 AM, David Lehman wrote: On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 10:24 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: On 09/11/2012 08:07 AM, David Lehman wrote: On Mon,

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 10:24 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Then there is a question of prominently showing substandard software to the public. We all know about first impressions in social settings. In operating systems it is the installer that makes the first impressions. You

The new installer

2012-09-10 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Had a frustrating experience with the fat cow installer. Something in one of the selections I made had a missing dependency (or whatever). Missing dependencies are a part of developmental installs. What was most frustrating is that the installer did not indicate which selection was causing the

Re: The new installer

2012-09-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 10 September 2012 15:07, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com wrote: Had a frustrating experience with the fat cow installer. Something in one of the selections I made had a missing dependency (or whatever). Missing dependencies are a part of developmental installs. What was most

Re: The new installer

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sep 10, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Had a frustrating experience with the fat cow installer. http://imgur.com/r/funny/tSE5K What was so wrong with the working installer that required writing a new one from scratch?