On Wednesday 19 December 2007 12:35, Stefan Hundhammer wrote:
Any URLs?
I'll find them again.
No luck: I threw away the paper printouts from older reviews that I had collected. And searching Google for the relevant keywords returns a zillion irrelevant results, but no useful ones. Having a good installer becoming old news since a couple of years, all you'll ever read about the installation is something along the lines of http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=6899 "Linux has gained so much ground over the past few years in regard to installation that it's mind blowing. It really is. What once was immature and cumbersome almost all the way across the board has been fine tuned to the point where it's a non-issue for those trying to decide if they are ready to try Linux for the first time. That seems to be a common question and/or concern of most new users I've spoken to over the years... they always want to know if I think they can install it by themselves or maybe they're just concerned they won't understand the new terminology. No matter what the worry, Novell/SUSE is on top of their game in this area. Gone are the days we need to have intimate knowledge of the hardware that our software will be installed onto. The major distros have led the way in this respect and it's duly noted. Novell/SUSE isn't the only one of course, but they've helped pave the road, there's no doubt." http://www.dvd-guides.com/content/view/221/104/ "The installer is the one we know from the past SUSE versions. It offers excellent hardware detection and easy wizards to setup any aspect of the installation you will imagine. Beginners may find it too complicated at start, especially when you compare it with the very simple installers others distros offer, but there are instructions and help for about everything." If there are any more comments about installation, it is because some piece of hardware was not properly detected, but it's never about the installation process or any gory details of it any more. The days of detailed reviews of the installation process or any configuration modules are gone. People take that for granted. On one side, this is flattering for us (following the old Unix concept that "no news is good news"), on the other hand this does not give us any new feedback. We could dig back to reviews of older versions (8.x, 7.x), but I have doubts if that would be considered relevant in this forum, so I won't spend any more time on that. So all that remains for me is to reiterate that there have been a number of reviews in the past (printed in c't magazine or online reviews) that explicitly mentioned that it's a good thing to have the online help visible by default. CU -- Stefan Hundhammer <sh@suse.de> Penguin by conviction. YaST2 Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Nürnberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org