On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:25:59AM +0930, David Lloyd scrawled: > Daniel, > > > While GNOME has its place, it does not belong on the desktops of > > Windows end-user refugees. > > We installed Mandrake 9.0 because the recipients know how to use and > support this operating system. The installer, as you might imagine, is > one of the first issues that we will be reviewing and one of the aims > that I will put forth is ease of use, understandibility and > compatibility with a wide range of hardware. Mandrake's installer is nice, but the lack of any easy-to-use, powerful, packaging system, plus any package manager, makes it god-awful to alter afterwards, and unless you're getting the recips to install it, you don't really care about the installer. -- Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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