Re: Daemon's Advocate article

[Robert Garrett <rg70@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Pressey wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 15:47:48 +0100
> Michel Talon <talon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > [...]
> > In the same vein the installer is the entrance port to an Operating
> > System for newbies. If the installer is the sort of crap that are
> > presently the *BSD installers, you cannot expect to attract a lot of
> > people outside of the professionals or the enthusiasts. The Linux
> > people have understood this point: it is the distributions with easy
> > to use installers (RedHat, Mandrake, Suse) that  have grabbed the
> > largest part of the market, not the distributions which pretend to
> > deliver a high quality product, like Debian, and begin by offering an
> > installer worse than the BSD ones.
>
>
> In defence of Debian's installer, I didn't think it was *that* bad.  At
> the very least, it did have at least the "feel" of being thought-out,
> even if it was, let's say confusing.
>
> But FreeBSD?  Here is my impression of what a new user sees when trying
> to install FreeBSD for the first time:
>
> ENTER GEOMETRY DON'T ENTER GEOMETRY SLICES PARTITIONS BUT PARTITIONS
> AREN'T PARTITIONS ANYMORE STARTING EMERGENCY HOLOGRAPHIC SHELL HAHAHAHA
>
> Fixing this isn't rocket science - but neither is it *computer* science,
> and there's the rub.  I personally think DFly's installer should be beta
> tested on "non-geek" guinea pigs each release, just for a sanity check
> on the jargon etc used in the messages.
>
> -Chris
It will be, it has to pass my wife ...
she woke me up at 4:00 in the morning cuz she couldn't figure out why
she couldn't play a cd..

the speakers where unplugged..

Rob