Linked by Paul Hankes Drielsma on Tue 15th Apr 2003 06:40 UTC
I can't take anymore comments like "Debian/Gentoo/OpenBSD/etc. are not good/user-friendly because they lack a graphical installer." Searching the web, I couldn't find a comprehensive site describing the good and the bad about graphical installers for various OSes throughout the years, so in this article I hope to debunk a few of the myths on the basis of my own personal and professional experience.
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I apologize for my heated response...but those Operating systems that don't supply a GUI for install are actually aimed at either power users or for servers, which are usually headless.
*BSD, Debain and Gentoo are not for newbies. In fact, I would bet that *BSD runs better as a server than a desktop, due to the fact that the majority of software ported to them is definitely aimed at the server.
Maybe i'm dellusional and more advanced than normal, but I don't like having to hook a monitor up to a server to install operating systems, i like them to either be done as scripted installs or by serial console. That way I can use a console server and do multiple installs at one time.