[Novalug] New Fedora Partitioner SUCKS

James Ewing Cottrell III JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Sun Oct 6 21:10:31 EDT 2013


I sent this to you because I know of your connection to Fedora.

There is nothing wrong or difficult with the RHEL/CentOS Installer; 
indeed I consider the RHEL/CentOS 5 Installer the Height of Perfection.

Granted, there probably configurations (anything but the Basic Devices) 
that the new Installer can handle better (or at all).

I will read that reference, but Fedora seems to want to Redefine the 
World and make things I Already Do not only More Difficult, but 
Impossible. That's hardly making things easier.

It's Too Buggy to be released.

JIM

On 10/4/2013 5:45 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 05:36:16PM -0400, James Ewing Cottrell III wrote:
>> Dear Fedora,
>>
>> I would like to "Thank" you for "Improving" the Partitioner.
> [...snip...]
>
> I'm not sure why this was addressed to me personally, but here's some
> useful background information on the installer and the how and why of
> the redesign:
>
> http://www.ryanlerch.org/blog/the-anaconda-interface-redesign/
>
> I find this link in the blog above especially useful:
>
> http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2011/12/14/whats-your-partitioning-persona-and-the-partitioning-ui-thus-far/
>
> This was all done transparently over the course of a couple years and
> I'm pretty proud of the way the Fedora team handled it -- both the
> design and the implementation.  That the installer team and the
> designers invited so much input from community members over the past
> two-plus years helped make this redesign more successful.  I
> appreciate that not every case can be handled equally deftly.
> Thankfully, the result of making choices in the design and
> implementation is that the majority of users will have an easier time
> installing.
>
>




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