Tshepang logs

I’ve recently looked at Ubuntu’s 10.04 and 10.10 installers, and they are quite nifty tools, so fresh and gorgeous, and so easy to use that nobody would dare say “I can’t install Linux!”. And then I recently re-installed my Debian system and I don’t really see how much harder it is to use than Ubuntu’s (except that it’s far uglier, so I guess that also makes it intimidating). So, just give it a try.

But the reason I’m naming this project of the moment is my reading of an excellent interview of Colin Watson, who did great work on that project, and had this to say about it:

d-i [Debian Installer] is the very first thing many of our users see, and has a huge range of uses, from simple desktop installs to massive corporate deployments; it’s unspeakably important that it works well, and it’s a testament to its design that it’s been able to trundle along without actually very much serious refactoring for the best part of five years now.

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