Re: [Maxlinux-devel] Setup Ideas....

[Kelledin <kel...@sk...>]

On Thursday 29 August 2002 01:35 pm, Michael Lauzon wrote:
> I cannot say strongly enough how i think you must use the
> (Ximian) Setup Tools.
> http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/xst-devel.html
> Improve, change them if necessary dont waste time developing
> yet another setup tool.

If Ximian can support an ncurses-style interface along with its=20
X11 interface, and turns out to have easily customizable=20
interfaces, I'd be happy to support it.

Up until now, I was considering designing a setup tool=20
remeniscent of scoadmin, the system administration tool from SCO=20
operating systems.  In my year or two of working with SCO=20
OpenServer/UnixWare, scoadmin was about the only thing about it=20
I could bring myself to like (there was too much other clunky,=20
backwards, problematic stuff in SCO operating systems).

> PLEASE No more package technologies
> Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 29 2002 @ 02:20 PM
> BST Great!! a new linux distro is always a good thing and I
> think that every distro should bring it's own unique take on
> linux. BUT PLEASE don't bring out yet another package
> technology. If novice users are ever going to be attracted to
> linux then a good (easy to use) software distribution and
> installation technology is necessary and they'll tend to group
> around the easiest, even as a technically experienced user I
> simply don't have the time to bother with tarballs anymore. We
> need competition within the linux distro community and the
> best way to foster this is to have a standard package system.
> Their are other areas that need focus now. I'll be intrested
> to see what your OS is going to offer
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I definitely agree on this point.  We've got more than enough=20
packaging technologies available already.

--=20
Kelledin
"If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does=20
it still cost four figures to fix?"