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Ximian Desktop Installer, Red Carpet, and MonkeyTalk

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Correction by JoshuaDFranklin · · Score: 5, Funny
    TuxReports has snapshots of the Ximian installer.

    TuxReports had snapshots of the Ximian installer.

  2. Hmmm... That's a Hard Question! by io333 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Do you believe that all Linux distributions should use such a friendly series of dialog boxes in order to attract more users to Linux?

    Uh... ouch, this is making my head hurt. Hold on... I'm thinking about it. OH!! I know the answer:

    "No. Absolutely Not. All Linux distributions should require the user to write their own install scripts. That way they can be COOL just like the average linux guru!"

  3. Package installer version 66.6 by dowobeha · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...

    /* Package installer version 66.6 */

    printf("Translating all source code for requested package.\n);
    printf("--- Successful ---\n");
    printf("Half of text in requested package will print in Esperanto. The other half will print in pig-latinized-Klingon.\n");

    printf("Creating random name for package executable...\n");
    printf("Searching drive for obscure installation location...\n");

    printf("Oops! There are 348,899,001 extra dependencies that this package relies on. Do you wish to go through them one by one?"\n);

    printf("Just kidding. Compilation was successful. Package is hiding in...\n");

    printf("...You don't actually think I'm going to tell you where to find this, do you?! Hahahaha!\n";

    ....

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  4. Naw by B3ryllium · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think most people here would prefer to install linux by manipulating the hard drive with magnets ...

  5. from /usr/lib/anaconda/upgrade.py by toolz · · Score: 3, Funny

    # I'm going to try to keep this message as politically correct
    # as possible. I think the Ximian GNOME is a very pretty desktop
    # and the hackers there do an extraordinary amount of work on
    # them. But it throws a huge wrench in our upgrade process. We
    # just want to warn our users that there are packages on the system
    # that might get messed up during the upgrade process. Nothing
    # personal, guys. - msw

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