"'Wow' for anaconda" !

[Máirín Duffy]

You did a fantastic job, everybody! Remember this article when you read
the next bug report :)

===

"Fedora 18 revisited: Cinnamon, Xfce, LXDM, and a 'wow' for anaconda" by
J.A. Watson on ZDNet

http://www.zdnet.com/more-on-fedora-18_p4-7000009990/#photo

"I've been rather blunt in my comments and criticism of anaconda, both
here in my own blog and in comments I've posted elsewhere. But on
reflection, I think it's important to remember that writing a program
like anaconda is a huge task: it's extremely complex and absolutely full
of variations, different paths to the final goal (installing Linux),
tons of minute details, every one of which has got to be exactly right.
And the complexity is increasing, not decreasing. Get anything wrong,
often even in the smallest detail, and you end up with a failed install
— or even worse, with an unbootable or even wiped disk or an otherwise
unusable system. I have never worked on or contributed to anaconda
(other than flippant criticism), but from having been on other such
projects I can tell you that you seldom hear about how well you have
done, but you always hear (generally at high volume) when something goes
wrong.

"So I want to say right here and now, loud and clear, WOW. What a good
job. For this to be the first release of a complete redesign and rewrite
of anaconda, and for it to be this solid, is extremely impressive. Those
of us who know Fedora will know that this is not the 'last' version, it
isn't 'cast in concrete', it's going to continue to develop and improve,
and future releases will be even better. But this first release works,
and works quite well."

~m

[Luya Tshimbalanga]

This quote:
"I'm accustomed to the /gparted/ presentation, which is nothing more 
than a graphical depiction of the physical layout of the drive, and that 
in itself assumes that you know enough to understand what each partition 
is and how they fit together. That isn't a very good assumption for the 
average user, is it? Showing partitions in logical installation groups 
may well be a better idea, and I just need to adjust to it."

is crucial because it shows the author understood the concept about 
making the partition setting easier to read for ordinary users. 
Hopefully the side effect will be to educate them.

Luya

[Leslie S Satenstein]

One problem with Gparted, is the representation. Do you read the graph from right to left, or left to right.

If we want fast access, we should move all /bin files to  a partition at the very front of a physical disk. It can remain where it is on a SSD drive.

Regards  
 Leslie
 Mr. Leslie Satenstein
50 years in Information Technology and going strong.
Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day,
and tomorrow will be even better.
 
SENT FROM MY OPEN SOURCE FEDORA LINUX SYSTEM.

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--- On Mon, 1/21/13, Luya Tshimbalanga  wrote:

From: Luya Tshimbalanga 
Subject: Re: "'Wow' for anaconda" !
To: "Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat Linux Installer" 
Date: Monday, January 21, 2013, 2:22 PM

This quote:

"I'm accustomed to the gparted presentation, which is
    nothing more than a graphical depiction of the physical layout of
    the drive, and that in itself assumes that you know enough to
    understand what each partition is and how they fit together. That
    isn't a very good assumption for the average user, is it? Showing
    partitions in logical installation groups may well be a better idea,
    and I just need to adjust to it."

is crucial because it shows the author understood the concept about
    making the partition setting easier to read for ordinary users.
    Hopefully the side effect will be to educate them.

Luya

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[David Cantrell]

Thanks, Mo.  I read this article the other day and was surprised.  Nice to
see the team's hard work recognized.

Great job, everyone!

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 01:29:21PM -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> You did a fantastic job, everybody! Remember this article when you read
> the next bug report :)
>
> ===
>
> "Fedora 18 revisited: Cinnamon, Xfce, LXDM, and a 'wow' for anaconda" by
> J.A. Watson on ZDNet
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/more-on-fedora-18_p4-7000009990/#photo
>
> "I've been rather blunt in my comments and criticism of anaconda, both
> here in my own blog and in comments I've posted elsewhere. But on
> reflection, I think it's important to remember that writing a program
> like anaconda is a huge task: it's extremely complex and absolutely full
> of variations, different paths to the final goal (installing Linux),
> tons of minute details, every one of which has got to be exactly right.
> And the complexity is increasing, not decreasing. Get anything wrong,
> often even in the smallest detail, and you end up with a failed install
> — or even worse, with an unbootable or even wiped disk or an otherwise
> unusable system. I have never worked on or contributed to anaconda
> (other than flippant criticism), but from having been on other such
> projects I can tell you that you seldom hear about how well you have
> done, but you always hear (generally at high volume) when something goes
> wrong.
>
> "So I want to say right here and now, loud and clear, WOW. What a good
> job. For this to be the first release of a complete redesign and rewrite
> of anaconda, and for it to be this solid, is extremely impressive. Those
> of us who know Fedora will know that this is not the 'last' version, it
> isn't 'cast in concrete', it's going to continue to develop and improve,
> and future releases will be even better. But this first release works,
> and works quite well."
>
> ~m
>
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