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Re: Installation Party



On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote:

> 1. Spoke Hebrew, Arabic, English or whatever your preference is.

I heartily disagree. Linux in particular and Unix in general is so 
heavily dependent on English that pandering to people's linguistic 
disabilities is a grave mistake.

> 2. Made a sincere effort to find your distibution medium for you
>    i.e. could deal with any CDROM, IDE/SCSI disk, network card

This is NOT such a bad idea, but hardly practicable.

> 4. Presented lilo installation in a way that newbies can understand.

Hmmm, I am not positive that Gurus understand Lilo configuration :-).

> This is what Window95 does (except for repartition, where it assumes
> that you don't want any other OS), can't we do at least as well?

Well, there's only ONE question to be asked - who has the time and the 
will to write such a program? This can probably done in sh or perl, but 
who is willing to write the code?

I lack time, Amos lacks time, Roji lacks time, Ira lacks time... Is there 
a surfeit of time among others?

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Marc A. Volovic (marc@cs.huji.ac.il)       Linguists do it cunningly


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