On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 04:30:04PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > bristel> It has been brought up time and time again that what we need > bristel> is to make Debian easy to install, easy to use, and easy to > bristel> configure for all levels of users. Now, the installation > bristel> issue is being addressed by the apt group. > > I resent this. I evaluated Debian usability and found the biggest > problems for new users, as well as new maintainers, was documentation. > I personally must have put at least 120 hours into the project of > improving the Installation documentation. Apt is great, and has > helped a lot -- I think a GUI version, like gnome-apt, is really going > to do a lot as well. The problem is as great as gnome-apt is (which afaict is about as great as anything gnome based, ie buggy---but that's a seperate rant) it's an X thing. Part of what got me using Debian in the first place was that I didn't need to have X to be able to set it up. So where's the apt front end for the console? apt 0.0.5 was the last version to feature one. =p I hope the apt and gnome-apt teams haven't forgotten us console people. => -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- <JHM> AIX - the Unix from the universe where Spock has a beard.
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