Re: More Debian v1.2 things...
'Shaya Potter wrote:'
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>We should try to take care of all the things that the Linux Journal article
>(Nov. 96) mentioned in a negative light.
>
>i.e. lets make dselect easier to use. Maybe their should be an X based
>version of it, along the lines of the make -xconfig for the linux kernel.
>It might not be simpler to use, but people are more comfortable dealing
>with a graphical system (just look at the mac, or ms windows).
No, it needs to be text based. It needs a novice or bulk mode with
no dependeny issues to worry about (in addition to it's advanced
selection mode where you can choose packages microscopically).
>The article also wrote "Also, the modules do not load into the kernel."
>Personally, I am not really sure what that means. The way debian dealt
>with the modules seemes to be normal to me, does anybody understand what
>that statement means. If it is problem, should it be fixed?
The article is right. Installing Debian on a new system will fail to
load modules until you can get a correctly compiled kernel/modules
setup installed.
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