Ubuntu is now worried about profits

Robert Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Sun Apr 25 20:45:48 BST 2010


On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Manish Sinha wrote:

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> Let's get straight to the point.
> A non-techie user wants to install Linux. He gets a CD from his friend
> and starts installing. If he has to answer gazillions of questions only
> to install the distro, isn't the entry to linux pretty tough?
> The installer should be pretty minimal, that's what ubiquity is. I just
> want to get an installer system over which I will do further.

What gazillion questions? I doubt if you can automate "name", 
"password", or "time zone". For almost everything else, including 
partitioning, the defaults can be used. What am I missing?

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