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Ximian Desktop Installer, Red Carpet, and MonkeyTalk
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.
TuxReports had snapshots of the Ximian installer.
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/* Package installer version 66.6 */
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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";
I am concerned about any program, any piece of hardware, any treaty, any law that treats me as a consumer, not a citizen
I think most people here would prefer to install linux by manipulating the hard drive with magnets ...
# 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
You aren't remembered for doing what is expected of you