Fedora 8 review

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Fri Dec 21 17:56:57 UTC 2007


On Dec 21, 2007 11:22 AM, King InuYasha <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 21, 2007 11:11 AM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > King InuYasha wrote:
> > > I would have to agree with Chris and Bryan regarding Anaconda and the
> > > icon style. It seems that Anaconda has had more and more features tacked
> > > on it since its inception so long ago. Has Anaconda ever been rewritten
> > > or has anyone even considered rewriting Anaconda? The icon style issue
> > > could be fixed once the Echo Icons are finished... if they do get
> > > finished....
> >
> > Pretty much all software gets features tacked on over time. I didn't
> > hear the review suggest anything close to a rewrite and a rewrite would
> > be absolutely pointless anyway
> >
> >
> > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
> >
> > Echo would get finished faster if there was more contributors.
> >
> > Rahul
> >
> > Ps: Don't top post.
> >
> >
> Well, my beef with Anaconda is similar to Chris and Bryan's as well as I
> have noticed that Anaconda has been getting considerably slower each
> release. And in Fedora 5, Anaconda made the jump from requiring at least
> 192MB of RAM for GUI to 256MB of RAM for GUI.


Frankly I think 256MB for GUI is fair. And yet, I think Anaconda
doesn't have NEARLY enough features -- it's too linear for my tastes.

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