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Progeny Announces Graphical Installer for Debian Woody
jdaily writes "In light of recent negative reviews of Debian in which the installer was roundly criticized, this announcement may have particular timeliness and relevance: Progeny has made available an i386 Debian 3.0 (woody) installer
image based on PGI, the Progeny Graphical Installer. This is
available at Progeny's free software archive." I've installed Debian so many times that I've just learned to cope with the installer, but this is a much needed boost.
Debian serves a great service to the linux community.
They give everyone a look into the past of linux.
The stable release is always at least a few years behind schedule so if you install debian you feel like it's 1999 all over again!
They're like the amish of linux, always using old outdated crap that everyone thinks is cute.
By far the worst installer ever conceived by the mind of geek is the BSD installer. I have installed FreeBSD on scores of machines over the years, and I can say without reservation that it totally stinks. On my machine, a Dell 4100 Dimension, 1GHz, 40GB, I had to do at least 25 red-button shutdowns and reboots to get the friggin' thing to continue its task, from the beginning, of course. This installer NEVER writes the XFree config correctly, and more often than not, it takes no account of accounts, which meand a first boot into a passwordless and useless interface. I believe that FreeBSD is the best OS out there, but the installer is by far the worst. Many times, I have thought just how lovely it would be to stuff the 1st CD up the developers ass sideways......
I have had similar probs with Debian, however I must say that they were user errors concerning XFree*^ and not the installer's fault. But in FreeBSD..... it is definately the installer that suX that causes ALL the probs.
Rien n'est plus beau que le creux du 0.
Great idea! Lets hold up pogress on 99% of Debian installs to insure compatibility with platforms that make up a a ridiculously low amount of the installed base. It doesn't make any sense to slow x86 development in order to keep Amiga and Atari ST up to do date in the year 2002.