>From: Michael Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [Cooker] Installation can be easier
>Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:36:23 +0100 (BST)
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>On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, unknown unknown wrote:
> > Also, wh
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> > RPM, urpmi and friends (including apt, etc.) are the real "killer
> > applications" on Linux, far surpassing anything on offer in the M$ world.
> > Try comparing RPM to InstallShield - they're not just in different
> > leagues; they're playing different sports!
>
> RPM and urpmi aren't ver
> RPM, urpmi and friends (including apt, etc.) are the real "killer
> applications" on Linux, far surpassing anything on offer in the M$ world.
> Try comparing RPM to InstallShield - they're not just in different
> leagues; they're playing different sports!
RPM and urpmi aren't very intuitive, no
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, unknown unknown wrote:
> Also, what do you all think about drag and drop installs, you have
> a CD in the drive, you are in gnome or nautilus, and you drag the game icon
> from the CD to a folder on your machine and it installs there.
Possibly one of the worst ideas I've hea
Discussion on Ease of Installation Issues.
lets discuss why all linux distributions have to install manually, has
anyone thought of making an installer, which installs completely as a
backround process, for example someone pops in a mandrake CD, and "now
loading" shows up, then some silly g
