From: Nathaniel McCallum <natem@bestweb.net>
To: gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Installer's Target user group
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:07:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <747AA58A-4ECA-11D8-A117-000A959CF200@bestweb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1074956105.28722.10.camel@rivendell>
On Jan 24, 2004, at 9:55 AM, foser wrote:
>
> Is this a question ? We must not confuse things here, if you say 'is
> this the way an installer should be heading?' i say yes. If you mean if
> this is the way Gentoo is heading, no. In my opinion the installer
> should be aimed at the lower skill levels, because the higher skill
> levels appreciate the power and hands-on feeling that the current
> install process gives them.
I know that I'm not a dev, but I soon hope to be. However, I have a
lot of experience writing installers for Gentoo (GLIS). I totally
disagree with picking a target group for a gentoo installer. I think
an installer can very easily appeal to all groups. The only difference
in installers between the easy installer and the advanced installer is
the amount of defaults that are chosen for the user. This is really
not hard to implement.
Nathaniel
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-20 8:54 [gentoo-desktop-research] Report of the desktop-research meeting Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-20 9:12 ` Mario Udina
2004-01-20 10:11 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-20 10:40 ` foser
2004-01-20 10:48 ` Tiemo Kieft
2004-01-20 12:23 ` Donnie Berkholz
2004-01-20 13:47 ` foser
2004-01-20 14:21 ` Donnie Berkholz
2004-01-20 17:53 ` Brandon Hale
2004-01-20 19:33 ` dams
2004-01-20 19:36 ` dams
2004-01-21 0:07 ` foser
2004-01-20 19:39 ` Joe McCann
2004-01-21 10:06 ` dams
2004-01-20 12:55 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-20 14:00 ` foser
2004-01-20 17:30 ` Tom Hosiawa
2004-01-21 19:57 ` Seemant Kulleen
2004-01-21 20:01 ` Donnie Berkholz
2004-01-21 22:58 ` foser
2004-01-22 0:13 ` Alastair Tse
2004-01-22 9:11 ` dams
2004-01-22 9:25 ` dams
2004-01-22 9:28 ` dams
2004-01-22 17:02 ` [gentoo-desktop-research] Installer Donnie Berkholz
2004-01-22 17:47 ` Tiemo Kieft
2004-01-22 20:45 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-22 18:38 ` Scott Koch
2004-01-23 0:07 ` Tiemo Kieft
2004-01-23 15:57 ` foser
2004-01-23 17:18 ` dams
2004-01-23 19:14 ` [gentoo-desktop-research] Installer's Target user group Scott Koch
2004-01-24 0:47 ` foser
2004-01-23 20:18 ` Scott Koch
2004-01-24 14:55 ` foser
2004-01-25 0:07 ` Nathaniel McCallum [this message]
2004-01-24 19:19 ` Tom Hosiawa
2004-01-25 0:29 ` lukas
2004-01-25 1:00 ` Nathaniel McCallum
2004-01-25 1:12 ` lukas
2004-01-24 1:26 ` Steve Barnhart
2004-01-24 15:04 ` foser
2004-01-24 10:45 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-24 14:50 ` foser
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