On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:19:53PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > By the way, what does bf24 stand for? Presumably the "24" means kernel > 2.4, but what about the "bf"? "big friendly", perhaps?
Correct about 2.4, and "bf" stands for "boot-floppies", the name of the installation system up to Debian 3.0. (The next release will have a rewritten, more modular, installer - boot-floppies is very monolithic and difficult to maintain.) > I'm _NOT_ prepared to use a mouse-driven GUI installation program, > particularly one which flickers horribly at 60Hz on my 17" CRT, and > even worse is the clueless mechanical way they made it into a > "keyboard-driven" program by simulating mouse movements by arbitrarily > long repeated <tab> thumping. In each screen of the installation > program, the <alt> key combinations were different, sometimes <CR> > went to the next screen, sometimes it went into a subscreen of the > current one. There's a saying that a chicken can install Debian if you put some corn on the Enter key. I think that kind of thing is definitely an invariant of the user interface that's worth preserving. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
