Ximian Desktop Installer, Red Carpet, and MonkeyTalk

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday July 14, 2002 @04:26AM from the making-things-friendly dept.

An anonymous reader submits: "Long-time Linux users forget what it is like to try to install something for the first time. Ximian has done a nice job writing scripts to hide the inner workings of a Gnome installation. TuxReports has snapshots of the Ximian installer. Do you believe that all Linux distributions should use such a friendly series of dialog boxes in order to attract more users to Linux?" Update: 07/14 21:13 GMT by M : Tuxreports has provided a non-PHP page for us to link to... whoops. Sorry about that.

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no... by aveng0 · 2002-07-14 04:32 · Score: 0, Flamebait

some of us actually want to know what our operating system is doing to our computers... as surprising as it may seem.
Re:The Easier the Better by qqtortqq · 2002-07-14 04:42 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Why do you want ALL distros to use it? I use debian because it is complete, yet minimally so. I want my configuration to be done with joe or vi, not pretty menus. This is good for a redhat or mandrake, distros that are geared towards n00bs.