Re: Why

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

Ever look at the macos installer? it has one of the nicest installers of
all. for a newbie it is nicer than ncurses or xwin based linux installers
and much nicer than a windows based installer. You can get full blown 24
bit color at full resolution with their installer. the UI is nice and easy
to use etc etc... easiest OS of all to install. Wow i sound like a mac
fan, i'm not, but just thinking that if linux had an installer that was as
easy to use as the mac it would then be a lot closer to being "the OS for
tha masses". It may be interesting to see what the linux community can
bring over from the darwin project (Apple open source project). 

On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:

> On 5/12/99 Bart Szyszka wrote:
> 
> >
> >This is exactly what I was thinking. The windows installer uses a generic
> >16-color, 640x480 mode ("Standard SVGA" or just "Standard VGA"?) and
> >I've never heard of anyone having graphic-card related problems with it.
> >Why can't someone do something similar with Linux? Is that what Corel
> >did?
> 
> this is exactly what it already does, it runs a generic server at 
> lowest common denominator modes, the problem is even generic servers 
> must have support for various cards, because all cards are not 
> created equal and have various degrees of proprietary obfuscation and 
> other differences that make creating a `single always works generic 
> server' easier said then done.
> 
> MS simply has a `more generic' "server" then we do.
> 
> BTW corel's generic X server fails too from what i have heard.  the 
> difference is corel does not `allow' you to use a console based 
> installer so if the generic server fails you are expected to get a 
> new computer :-)
> 
> personally i think the ncurses based installers both look better(*) 
> and are just as easy to use (easier IMO) then an X based installer. 
> and are certainly more reliable.  besides which is easier, a X 
> installer that won't run or the console based installer?
> 
> * at 640x480 16 color mode 60Hz (or less) refresh rate EVERYTHING 
> looks like sh*t  ;-)
> 
> 
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> Ethan Benson
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