Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Nov 2005 08:31 UTC
"The Debian Weekly News for October 25th, 2005 discusses the upcoming graphical frontend to the debian-installer as part of the most recent minutes of the monthly Debian Installer team meeting. It appears that after all of these years the text based Debian installation is finally getting the boot." Screenshots here.
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RE: What Debian starts, Ubuntu now finishes
by psilo on Tue 1st Nov 2005 13:12
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Using the stable branch, synaptic is fine, but only aptitude will guide you through tricky dependency situations using testing/unstable or a lot of third party repositories.
For documentation /usr/share/doc/<package>. Install debian-reference and dhelp.
Edited 2005-11-01 13:17
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It's a great start, but who has faith that Debian will ever produce a genuinely user-friendly solution to anything? Chances must be that the real work of this interface will end up being done by another crew - Ubuntu, Knoppix, etc. Unless Ubuntu or whoever decides that reinventing the wheel like this is not worth the hassle and plumps for an adapted anaconda or similar.
In any case, Debian isn't that hard to install unless you choose the "expert" option, for example, when you are far from being an expert. The real fun starts post-install when you find that you'll need to learn the "Debian way" of system configuration but the howtos for this either don't exist or are very cunningly hidden.
Just to test your steel, Debian still maintains that real men use the frightening and ugly Aptitude instead of something easy and friendly like Synaptic which, curiously, works extremely well on plenty of other distros.