"Jack Pryne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm totally new to the list, and I'm not even running Debian yet, but I have >an idea that I'd like to bounce off the group: > >Consider that one of the major reasons that people don't use any operating >system besides windows is because they need to *install* it. Most machines >are delivered with Windows already running. Installing a new operating >system can be a major hurdle, even for someone with computer experience. > >What if installation *and* maintainence could be managed by a single simple >program, freeing the novice user from mountains of research, tweaking, and >testing?
Please feel free to write the code. If you have ideas about how to improve our installation, you might want to direct them to the debian-boot mailing list, who collectively maintain the installer; a new installer is in development for the next-but-one release. On the maintenance side, I reckon Debian is doing pretty well, although hardware detection is certainly a weakness. >True, while many pieces of hardware may, as of yet, be unsupported by >Debian, such a system would be able to report precisely *which* pieces of >unsupported hardware were the *most* common amongst it's users, thus >providing vital feedback to the Debian developer community about what >drivers need to be developed in order to continue the impetus that is >Debian. Bear in mind that most of this stuff needs to go to the kernel developers, not Debian ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
