Ubuntu is now worried about profits

Robert Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Mon Apr 26 01:54:09 BST 2010


On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Gilles Gravier wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On 25/04/2010 21:45, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Manish Sinha wrote:
>>
>>              .........snip.........
>>
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>>
> You are missing a troll detector...

Will that be in 10.04?

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