Folks. Much of this is probably repeating what has already been said, but here goes. I, either on line or in real life, continually say to people who ask me which distribution of linux to use, "use debian". and they, routinely, say "but the installer is terrifying, and straight out of the dark ages." "I really like debian, but the installer is much too nasty to use." etc etc With the now working release of gtkfb, and the soon to be release (hopefully) of curses gtk+, it seems to me that there is a good opportunity for a "nice" ie, newbie friendly, installer. Using gtkfb for a graphical installer and curses gtk+ for a text installer would mean that the same code could be used for both methods, allowing for a consistent ui "look and feel". I realise that using gtkfb adds several more dependencies to the install software, not least is the need to have VESA framebuffer support compiled into the kernel, but i feel that it would be a relatively small sacrifice given the potential that a graphical installer has. Just some ideas. cheers, -Thom ** thom@planetarytramp.net **************** http://www.planetarytramp.net **
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