Re: Reality check!
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Steve Shorter wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> > installation easier requires hard work. If it would be easy, it would have
> > been long done. The trick is to keep flexibility (and don't tell me SuSE is
> > flexibel). Doing it easy for the newbie and configurable for the experienced
> > user requires a well though out configuration and administration system. At
> > least for multi-installation this is currently developed on the
> > debian-admintool list.
>
> I suspect that it is impossible to get the best of both worlds
> in a single solution. You would probably end up with the worst of both.
> Perhaps it would be good to consider two (2) different installations
> One the same/similar to what we have - and another that caters to newbies
> ie. one that is easy/basic and satisfies the pedagogocal requirments of the
> new user. If debian were able to have both the advanced capability that
> it has now AND a simple basic install for novices and teaching purposes
> it would stand out amongst all other dists. Would it not? Like who else
> has thought about the REAL requirements of the newbie? I mean as a future
> technical user?
I would see this as a RH-style - so a rather bloated kernel which includes
lots of stuff as standard, and asks them the pertinent questions all at
once at the beginning, and then gets on with it.
Matthew
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