Fedora dumping text installation mode ??

JoergJaeger · April 25, 2011, 11:58pm

oldcpu:

You could be correct. Yaloki pointed out to me it is more than a ‘text’ mode, it is actually an ncurses interface to add a bit more colour/menu aspect to what is in essence a sort of ascii/text install. I assume that requires more effort than a pure text interface to develop/maintain, but I don’t know myself.

Yes, for technical reasons.

The text/ncurses install can be useful for headless servers and for remote network installations (so I am told - I have not tried such myself).

Plus there is old hardware that I have used that will NOT install with a GUI, but will install in ncurses/text mode. In such a case the user will typically specify for use (after install completion) a light weight desktop such as LXDE.

Plus I have read of the very odd and occasional case where with new hardware, the GUI install would fail, but the ncurses/text install succeeded. Once installed, the user could boot to a full screen text mode, install an essential update for the GUI, and then with the updates installed/in-place get the GUI working. That’s not common, but I’ve seen it happen.

So the text/ncurses install adds some features. I guess the question asked is such a feature worth the effort to maintain - an effort that I have no insight into. But the text/ncurses install is a capability I would not want to see dropped (from openSUSE) as I have used it on occasion.

It does make sense now to me.

Just have to figure out how i can participate in it more so that my voice gets heart too.
I can not contribute really in a technical sense, since this is not what i do or really understand.
But perhaps i can express my opinion or vote for one or the other choice there is.
Need to go dig some more.

malcolmlewis · April 26, 2011, 12:29am

Hi
You need to have a read here Portal:How to participate - openSUSE build up your contributions and then apply for openSUSE membership, then get to vote on some of these issues…

JoergJaeger · April 26, 2011, 1:28am

Will do. If i get it right one day, i will contribute a ascii gecko

robin_listas · April 26, 2011, 1:50am

On 2011-04-25 23:06, oldcpu wrote:
>
> robin_listas;2329617 Wrote:
>> There have been many decisions without vote, even against what we
>> requested.
>>
>
> This is really the subject of an IRC chat board meeting, or a separate
> thread.

If it were a serious conversation, yes. Otherwise, this is just a
conversation in chit-chat.

> Still I ask myself, who made the decisions that you refer to ?

“They”. Ie, Novell.

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robin_listas · April 26, 2011, 2:03am

On 2011-04-26 00:36, malcolmlewis wrote:
> and then apply for openSUSE membership, then get to vote
> on some of these issues…

No, the only vote asked of the membership is to vote for the board; nothing
else AFAIR.

Being a member just recognises that you contribute.

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Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

malcolmlewis · April 26, 2011, 3:39am

Ahh, sorry, the version numbering to be used for the next release,
spokesperson naming as well as indicated the Board.

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robin_listas · April 26, 2011, 4:20am

On 2011-04-26 03:39, malcolmlewis wrote:
> Ahh, sorry, the version numbering to be used for the next release,
> spokesperson naming as well as indicated the Board.

Ah, you are right, I remembered incorrectly. That was the first vote I saw.

For the vote for the board election, we usually get an email requesting our
vote, but not for the release numbering thing. If there have been other
votes, there has been no emails and I wouldn’t notice.

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