On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 11:41 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I installed and played with Ubuntu 10.10 over the weekend (in a VM), > and I have to say that their installer is very smooth indeed. It's > starting to make anaconda look distinctly clunky. > > Some of the things it does which are IMHO better: > > - starts disk formatting / copying / installing in parallel > with asking user questions > > - downloads updates in parallel too > > - uses IP geolocation to guess the user's timezone and keyboard > settings (it's been 100% correct for me each time) > > - suggests a username and hostname based on the user's real name > (Mac OS X's installer also does this -- it's a nice touch) > > This is in contrast to anaconda (certainly from the live CD install) > which seems to be a usability no-go area. > > Thoughts? Could somebody send in bug numbers for the RFEs they filed already? > Can we switch to their installer? > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) > http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
