[Computerbank] Re: [cai-sa] Teen Challenge -Network

[Daniel Stone]

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 at trinity.unimelb.edu.au>
Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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