[Rule-list] Introduction

[James]

All,
   Greetings My name is James Sparenberg.  I'm currently the Directory New Product Development for a start-up to be known as Open Country.  We are a Linux company specializing in Application Management/Environment Normalization.  But enough advertising.  

   My main intrest in seeing this go is the generalized benifit I see to not only low dollar environs but to Linux as a whole.  The concept of "memeory is cheap so use it" rankles my nerves to now end.  I for one remember Battle Chess and the fact that you had a full motion, 3d chess game (with animation) that fit on a 1.2 meg floppy (Amiga Version).  Today of course the computer I run on is 950 mhz with 393 megs of ram and most "elitists" consider it slow.  Funny my word processor runs just as fast as WordStar did on a 7mhz Amiga with 1 meg ram and two floppies..... hmmmmm.

  What can I contribute... well first I've got a 386 notebook with no CD and a floppy drive (2 gig hdd though) just aching to run linux.  I've also got some questions which I hope will help.

   Why run anaconda?  It's great if you have the possibility of several disks of apps or are trying to match a wide range of modern hardware.  In this case since I believe you intend to have a limited number of apps (low disk space)  Why not shrink the installer to something that simply says, take everything on this disk and install it on that disk.  Run configs etc AFTER the box boots the first time (you do intend to have tools that re-configure the box right?)  This would also limit the amount of i18n work needed on the installer, since it doesn't ask so dang many questions.  

Thanks for reading my rant... I'll shut up (for) now.

James Sparenberg

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