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Don't really need one. Nothing wrong with the present installer.
I said the same thing re the gentoo installer.
But they insisted on a full-blown GUI - then the devs complained when it was released (with serious bugs) and crashed new users.
Apparently we "old hands" were to blame for not testing it sufficiently. Like hell - none of us were going to risk our systems on (unnecessary) dodgy eye-candy.
Hopefully Pat V will never try to implement a GUI installer. That would be the beginning of the end. Then all Linux distros would have been 100% Ubuntu-ized or Window$-ized (even tho Window$ does not have a GUI installer). Then, I'd have to switch to LFS.
Using the arrow keys is not much harder than using a mouse. Yes, a text installer may give the impression of an unpolished or unprofessional system, but for those who learn Linux well enough to know that such impressions don't matter at all, this is not an issue. Text installers scare away Linux newbies a bit, but anyway I'd personally recommend a beginner to try one of those Windows-like distros first and then move on to Slackware.
I'm asking whether people (perhaps those who participate in slackware development) know about any plans for a gui installer, not a text-based gui, I'm not asking how you feel about them.
Personally, I don't find anything wrong with OpenBSD's installer, and that's even less graphical than slackware's ncurses based one. Infact, in a lot of ways I prefer it to slackware's installer. For one thing, it requires less interaction.
I'd sooner us move to a OpenBSD style installer than go the other way, with hundreds of graphical knobs and buttons to twist and push.
Infact, what I'd like to see on the install cd/dvd is the option of a fire and forget, non-interactive-setup script that will just run through doing a full install with sane default values. I'm sure that would make newer users lives much easier than anything a graphical installer would bring. I might even have a go a writing one myself.
I'm asking whether people (perhaps those who participate in slackware development) know about any plans for a gui installer, not a text-based gui, I'm not asking how you feel about them.
Yes and I gave you a definitive answer that was not an opinion.
There are NO plans to to use an alternative to the current ncurses based interface.
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