Re: Why

[Evan Moore <evan@info.load-otea.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca>]

i prefer the ncurses based installer myself, but people comming from the
"other" OSs probably prefer something a little more familiar. before linux
i was one of those "command line? eek!!" people aswell. now when i use one
of the "other" OSs i keep wanting to bring up a prompt.

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:

> On 3/12/99 Bart Szyszka wrote:
> 
> >Now what makes Windows so incapable of having these same problems?
> >I've never heard of anyone having trouble running the Win95 installer
> >on a system that just had DOS because of video hardware.
> 
> <shrug>  perhaps because win95 has a bazillion drivers?  the generic 
> X servers cover a pretty decent number of video cards, slowly, and at 
> 640x480 with a 40hz refresh :-), dunno about you but I would prefer a 
> console ncurses based installer to a huge headache.  (well I prefer 
> console based installs to pointy clicky installs anyway but maybe 
> that's just me)
> 
> most of the time the X based installs fail for me, I avoided the 
> linuxppc one after a friend had it bork the install several times 
> (unrelated to X itself but rather creating an inode for every 32K 
> instead of 4 or 8, and pretending 80% of the packages did not exist 
> so the resulting system was nonfuntional)  and redhat's 6.1 X 
> installer never loaded on my box when I took a look at it.
> 
> Long live Debian GNU/Linux console based install !
> 
> :-)
> 
> Ethan
> 
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