On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 14:44 +1300, Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
> > Lately, I've been thinking it would be very cool to have an applet on
> > the download page that could examine the users hardware, compare it to
> > values in a database and offer advise based on that.
> 
> An interesting idea!
> 
> > Will I be able to
> > just reboot into the live-session?
> 
> Well, if the user can't, then it is really a bug that should be fixed.
> Unless it is simply a RAM issue. If it is a RAM issue, it would be far
> nicer to have the Desktop CD recognise that and degrade gracefully to
> a low-memory session (not that it does, but I believe that WUBI is
> working on such a low-mem session).
> 
> > Maybe I'll have to run
> > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg in order to see gdm?
> 
> Again, that sounds like a bug to me.

A lot of these are bugs, but some have gone unfixed for sometime.  One
such installer bug has been present for the past few releases, where the
timezone screen is too big.  Yes these are bugs, yes, they should be
fixed, but the reality is that not all are.

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