On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 11:41 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I installed and played with Ubuntu 10.10 over the weekend (in a VM), and I have to say that their installer is very smooth indeed. It's starting to make anaconda look distinctly clunky.
Some of the things it does which are IMHO better:
starts disk formatting / copying / installing in parallel with asking user questions
downloads updates in parallel too
uses IP geolocation to guess the user's timezone and keyboard settings (it's been 100% correct for me each time)
suggests a username and hostname based on the user's real name (Mac OS X's installer also does this -- it's a nice touch)
This is in contrast to anaconda (certainly from the live CD install) which seems to be a usability no-go area.
Thoughts?
Could somebody send in bug numbers for the RFEs they filed already?
Can we switch to their installer?
Rich.
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