Installation Wizard in Yumex

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Mon Apr 10 12:53:24 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 14:35 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I just stumbled over easyUbuntu [1] and got a idea to add some kind of 
> installation Wizard in yumex, to make it easy to add all the
> extra stuff need to get your fedora running.
> 
>    * Nvidia drivers.
>    * ATI Drivers
>    * NTFS support.
>    * MP3 support.
>    * Movie player with codecs. (Mplayer, gstreamer etc).
>    * Java
>    * Flash
> 
> I want to make some kind of XML format to creating the Wizard entries 
> and the actions behind. The different people can make there own wizards  
> and people can just drag and drop an URL to a  wizard XML into yumex to 
> add the wizard entries to the installation wizard. This could be a way 
> to close the gap between a FOSS distribution and the non free or patent 
> related stuff, there never can be included in Fedora.
> Let me now what you think, is it a totally lame idea or is it a way to go.

It's a nice idea, but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_infringement#Active_inducement_of_infringement

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/

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