Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?

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Subject: Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?
From: Patrick Donker <list-account@webpagina.nu>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 00:13:02 +0200
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s. keeling wrote:

Incoming from Patrick Donker:
While you're at, could somebody explain to me why it is concidered to belame asking for a gui installer? I have never quite understood why it is
Turn it around.  Ask what is to be gained from a GUI installer.  Off
the top of my head, I'd compare SuSE' YAST to YAST2.  The latter was
slower, used more resources, demanded X, did less, and looked
prettier.  Whoopee.

Thats why I said that I'd prefer a good txt installer over a poor gui one

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References:
- Whats with this new Debian installer?
  - From: Patrick Donker <list-account@webpagina.nu>
- Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?
  - From: Carl Fink <carlf@fink.to>
- Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?
  - From: Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
- Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?
  - From: Carl Fink <carlf@fink.to>
- Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?
  - From: Patrick Donker <list-account@webpagina.nu>
- Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?
  - From: "s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>

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