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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Just provide both. Unless your operating system is aimed at power-users, developers or servers EXCLUSIVELY in which case you can probably get away with a CLI one only.
I'm using gentoo and I'm actually enjoying having no installer, because I'm learning a LOT about the inner workings of a linux system. But I can imagine that if I had to install this again on another desktop machine, it would start to get tedious. I hope that when they finally do make the CLI installer that they would provide an easy way to reuse some other installation (at least all the files you downloaded so that you don't have to waste precious internet bandwidth to download X, Mozilla, Gnome/KDE, etc from the net again...) and/or a kickstart script.