[Ubuntu-BR] Ubuntu & Anaconda

[Felipe Balbi]

Peço desculpas para os que não falam inglês, mas o
texto é um tanto grande e no momento não estou com
muito tempo para traduzir...

O texto a seguir foi retirado da página
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/GraphicalInstaller e
fala sobre o fato do Anaconda estar sendo cotado como
instalador gráfico do Ubuntu Linux. Vale ressaltar que
a parte de portabilidade para o Debian, já foi feita
(conforme dito no texto)... nosso trabalho agora,
seria traduzí-lo e modificá-lo de forma a servir aos
nossos propósitos.

[]'s
Felipe Balbi

Anaconda? --Tommaso R., Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:18:42
+0000

It isn't possible to port the existing installer
Anaconda (see fedora core)?

Anaconda? --Matt Zimmerman, Thu, 13 Jan 2005 00:44:14
+0000

It is possible; whether it is the right idea is
another matter entirely

Anaconda... --Brandon Nolte, Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:00:21
+0000

Yes it is possible to port Anaconda to debian... In
fact if you check out
http://componentizedlinux.org/anaconda/ You will see
that it has been done. Why don't we include this in
Ubuntu. I have tested it out and it seems to work
great.

Anaconda... --Ruben Vermeersch, Thu, 27 Jan 2005
08:56:29 +0000

I personally, don't consider Anaconda a just-works
installer, yes it works well, but it could improve a
lot to offer the experience the current installer
delivers. Like Matt said: "whether it is the right
idea is another matter entirely"

Anaconda? --Brandon Nolte, Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:45:05
+0000

I agree there is improvement to be had, But it is a
good first step.

Anaconda --R. Steven Rainwater, Thu, 27 Jan 2005
16:07:54 +0000

Anaconda is GPL'd. It's intuitive. It's already used
on lots of other distributions, so users will already
be familiar with it. It's way better than installers
I've used on any Debian-based distribution. It's not
perfect but why not help improve it instead of
re-inventing the wheel?

Anaconda --John Moser, Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:31:41 +0000

Anaconda could be rewritten to be more modular and
driven by extensions. Each screen could be an
extension plug-in, with a loose script to say how to
procede. Actually, I'm just quoting my original design
goals for Capsaicin, which again reminded me that I
shouldn't start a SF project for s--- I'm not done
designing.

Graphic Design Help --Andre Nogueira, Fri, 04 Feb 2005
12:09:50 +0000

I'm a graphic designer and also work with usability. I
would like to help in the development of the Installer
interface. How can I help? []s Andre

Anaconda --Marcelo Lira dos Santos, Sat, 05 Feb 2005
00:43:45 +0000

I really like the Anaconda installer, and though it
worked fine on my computer, it refuse to install the
system on two more old computers. But with the Ubuntu
installer all went OK.

Choices --Alfonso de Cala, Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:09:50
+0000

We have tested Anaconda, Debian Installer and
Metadistros. The first one is nice, but slow. D-I is
not bad, but need graphical interface and it's really
hard to hack. Metadistro is the only one installing
from Live-CD, not using packages. If you take a look
on Metadistros, you'll find a lot of patched scripts,
difficult to trace. But the final result is really
good. A graphical installer, very user-friendly, with
clear dialogs and many options, as using to whole disk
or resizing your partitions. IMHO, Metadistros has got
the options, but not the right code. They were porting
everything to Python but I'm afraid they need some
help.

Metadistro --Alfonso de Cala, Mon, 07 Feb 2005
14:42:32 +0000

I forgot the URL:
http://metadistros.software-libre.org/en/index.php (a
new web, maybe incomplete)

Live CD Installer --Jaap Haitsma, Fri, 25 Feb 2005
10:42:20 +0000

Zen Linux http://www.zenlinux.org/drupal/ has a live
CD installer which is 100% compatible with the Debian
installer. So I guess it might be possible to change
that installer so that it is compatible with ubuntu.

Mepis is also well worth looking at --Ian Oliver, Sat,
05 Mar 2005 14:54:22 +0000

Mepis is distributed as just the Live CD. You boot off
this, play around, make sure you're happy and then
just run the installer from its desktop. Dunno how
they have room as Mepis is in many ways a more
complete distribution than Ubuntu.

Re:Why Not --Yathi Raj, Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:49:31
+0100

How about using the information (like dependencies) in
the deb database of the installed system in the live
cd and giving user to select the package that he wants
to install insted of installing the entire system? 

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