Do we cahnge the installer?

[jfm2@club-internet.fr]

One of the things is meditating about is that the RedHat installer we
were using until now is perhaps no longer the best around.  So since I
am restarting from scratch we coiuld question if we aswitch installers.

Things like license or the fact we need a _documented_ installer (oe
the user will find books about) restrict the choice to:

1) Mandrake
2) Caldera and its family
3) RedHat

Mandrake is nice but wriiten in Perl: not very good for mataining it.
Also I have found it is difficult to get their source packages and
they make very unrthodox things in their distrib so I don't want to
bvase upon them just use their installer.  It supports multiCD installs

Caldera is nice but theere are many things who are uncleanly made in
their installer (like the way they detect hardware, instead of looking
at /proc/pci they seem to try modules one by one).  But there are
other distribs who based on it and cleaned it.  It uses C++.  2.4 did
not support multiCD installations but perhaps new one will.  For
licensing reasons we only can use their installer.

RedHat is too traditional but new installer supports multiCD
installations.  It is in Python and once you have learned it it is far
easier yto understand Python programs than C++ or Perl programs.

Opinions?

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			Jean Francois Martinez

Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
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