Racing snails (part 2)

[mdlbear]

Apparently the Mac installer is too stupid to actually look at what's on your disk and upgrade what's there, even if you tell it you're doing an upgrade and not a reinstall from scratch. Good grief! RedHat was doing that ten years ago. Admittedly it wasn't doing it very well -- it didn't remove obsolete stuff -- but at least it was trying. For that matter, Tiger probably isn't removing the stuff you don't need, either. And if it was, how could you tell?

Did I mention that I started this process before noon? Grumble.

What right does anybody have to claim that Linux is hard to install, and the Mac is a model of simplicity and user-friendly design? And how can it possibly be user-friendly without a package for xteddy?

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Really. I can drop an Ubuntu disk in a box and be DONE in half an hour with decent bandwidth... and upgrades (with the users on!) are dead easy... but you knew that already...

I'm not convinced about xteddy, though. flightgear (http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/games/flightgear), on the other hand, kicks much keister.

[mdlbear]

It's amazing how fast you can install Debian with a local mirror and a 100MHz local network. I'm upgrading to GigE.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Yeah. We've got gigabit at work on our production backbone, and we can do Fedora Core in ten minutes, a task that normally takes thirty to forty feeding CD's. Dunno how fast Ubuntu will go, but Engineering is working on it.... (I've been trying to get them to do this for a year now, and they're finally doing it...)