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ewl
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 Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:47 pm Post subject: Anaconda question |
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In my experience - and although I'm not the most experienced gnu/linux user, I have installed a number of different distros - anaconda is the best installer around. Is there a reason why other non rpm distros haven't used it? Is there something about it that makes it rpm only?
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jebba
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| Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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I think it would take a lot of refactoring to get it to work with something like ubuntu or even more with something like slackware.
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Caraibes
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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For some reason, I had to install Mandriva 2006 on a similar PC as mine, that as the same PCI TV-card.
The installer was quite similar to Anaconda, and the good point was that it detected and configured all the exotic hardware as that TV-card (Lifeview Flyvideo 2000)...
I must say that it is absolutely the ONLY distro that made that tv-card to work properly (afterwards, thru tvtime & xawtv)... Ok, PCLinuxOS did it too, but it is mainly based on Mandriva, so I put both on the same bag...
My point is that having an installer that finds all the proper firmware/drivers for difficult hardware is just great...
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-Was it proprietary ???
-Don't know, but I guess not, because it was Mandriva 2006 Free (the GPL version)
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ewl
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Caraibes wrote: |
-Was it proprietary ???
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I think the Mandrake/Mandriva installer is based on Anaconda. I assume it uses Anaconda code, so it must be covered by the GPL
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