Re: debian

[Alfredo Valles <alfredo@bioinfo.cu>]

On Friday 20 June 2003 9:29 am, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>     Bijan> There's no good reason why Debian doesn't.
>
> Debian runs on many architectures (have you even looked
> athttp://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual recently?) . It
> has a different set of priorities than Mandrake or Red Hat. If I
> wanted a good installer I'd go with one of the other distributions, or
> work on adding it to Debian.

It's always the same!
For some odd reason people in debian tend say: "Hey, if you don't like how we 
do it, go to RedHat"
Why on earth should I go to RedHat when the system I like installs and 
autodetect hardware perfectly well on the plataform that I and 95% of people 
use (i386-compatible). Knoppix is the proof of this.

There will always be the choice to install on all other platforms but without 
some facilities. 

I remember that in one interview with Knopper they ask him if anyone of the 
debian developers team have come to him to ask for his advice to add knoppix 
autodetection to a debian installer.
He said that there wasn't such a contact.

I wonder if the developers who are working on the installer aren't trying to 
do a great universal installer while there are one ready and usable "now" for 
the most popular architecture.