On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 00:19, Kent West wrote: > Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > >What is the reason debian does not install like other OSs ? > > > > > > > > Mostly because other OSes run on i386, period, whereas Debian runs on > something like 13 different architectures (i386, Mac, Sparc, Arm, etc), > and each arch version needs to stay fairly well synchronized with the > others. If you want a "Debian" that installs like other OSes, you might > want to take a look at http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros. > Add in that in not *too* long, Debian will be installing not just Linux, but a couple *BSDs and potentially (should it get to the state appropriate for such) the Hurd. But I'm not going to fault Debian for autodetection being a tad shy of totally automated - I used to run OS/2, where autodetction existed as far as *knowing* there wasn't an OS/2 driver for that device ;) It couldn't find all of the memory on my system (topping out at 64 MiB) while Linux and WinNT 3.51 both saw 80 MiB. That said, installers have generally always been a headache, regardless of the system, until the last decade when the repeated need to re-install Windows made for attention to the process necessary. > Now, having said that, each release of Debian gets a little easier to > install than the last, and the next release, or the one after, should be > more like what you expect Today. (Of course, by then, you'll be asking > why Debian doesn't install like Tomorrow's other OSes.) > > Debian might be tough to install, but you only have to do it once. > > -- > Kent West (westk@acu.edu) > -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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