Katarina Machalkova schreef:
Hola!
any idea how many people use the ncurses installer ?) Either experts or people who don't have a supported GPU... in both situations, a simple list in whatever order will do, and possibly even with a preselection of the "text pattern".
Ncurses is better for remote installation, Katarina might have more information on numbers.
People who use ncurses installer might choose to do so for many reasons:
- It is usable even without X (and correctly working X) - It is better choice for using over the network (remote X has quite big communication overhead) - It is faster and has lower memory requirements - Graphic libraries simply do not belong to the server
For some numbers (not specific to installation in text-mode, but specific to using ncurses UI in general), please see the survey results page: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Workshop_Prague_2007_Day_1/YaST_ncurses_survey#Y...
frozenB.
This does not mean, that the installation itself does not stays as is? What this about now, as i get it right: How to let newcomers make a choice of their liking? (illustration about meself: When i installed SuSE first, Gnome was on top, and then KDE. I thought Gnome is the default, so i installed gnome. imediately after install i saw this was not my choice, and reinstalled to take KDE, to use it still.) A new install, is not hard to reinstall, there is no attachment yet. After some time i learned to let go, i don't 'own' things, just use them. My /home used to be a big mess, now it is small, and clean. Every 'newbee' has to become comfortable with linux, we should respect them, and treat them, as we want to be treated ourselves. We must help him/her to make the right choice, and than install a hell of a good system, which works, based upon his/her choices. Something i as newbee, very much like is, that the to be installed system, 'sees', what is allready there, and respect this, weater i do this myself or not. If i am a new user, i need to *Trust* the new system. This trust is gained, if my 'new' os, can 'see' what is already there. If i have some systems residing there already, i want them to run still, after i have installed the 'new' system. (my fears are: will all be allright afterwards?) The trust that comes from what i see the first minutes, determines if i am gonna install, or not. (an example: as a newbee, I wanted to install suns solaris 10. I didn't trust the installer for my installs already there, and i did not install. There was no clearity of what would come next, so i stopped the installation.) So: If i am going to install: where? If the trust is present at this point, the installation goes. I as user must know, that the new os *knows better what to do than i*, but respects my choices. and than : What. -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.25-rc8-12-default x86_64 Current user: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 System: openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64) Alpha3 KDE: 4.00.68 (KDE 4.0.68 >= 20080402) "release 6.4" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org