new look installer... why?

[Philippe Landau]

Travis Newman wrote:
 >>the current generation of linux installers
 >>install everything while you can surf the web and work.
 >>you can keep ubuntu a step behind, but it is hard
 >>to hold back transitions from black and white to colour.
 >
 > Which ones? That's pretty cool if you're right about this,
 > and I dunno why you'd be lying.
:-)

 > I just installed Fedora to test something out the other day,
 > and I DEFINITELY didn't have this feature there. That would
 > especially be good for following documentation for when you're
 > doing something advanced.

for example the excellent one-man show
PCLinuxOS 2K4: Mandrake Meets The Live CD
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/30/0044245

 > Why aren't there more LiveCD installers? I used Knoppix
 > as my debian installer and it was such a good experience
 > that given the choice I would never go back to anything else.
 > Text based installers are powerful, but for the pure
 > user experience, being able to boot into a full OS
 > and surf the web and listen to music while the OS installs
 > in the background seems like the best way.

kind regards     philippe