the python name

[Grant Edwards]

On 2019-01-05, Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/03/2019 06:35 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 03 January 2019 15:28:49 Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> About 20 years ago, the RedHat Linux (way before RHEL) installer
>>> (which was written in Python) was called Anaconda.
>
>> Thanks for rescuing my old wet ram Grant, thats exactly what I was 
>> thinking of. AIR, it wasn't anywhere near a "real installer" and I spent 
>> a decent amount of time turning perfectly good air blue. 
>
> On the other hand I never had any troubles with it, nor have I had any
> problems with it recently.  Not sure what you mean about it not being
> anywhere near a "real installer."
>
> The non-linear redesign that came out a few years ago really threw me,
> and I still don't like it.

Yea, same yere.  I do several dozen Linux installs every year (of
various distros).  About half of the installs are with Anaconda
(CentOS and Fedora).  I find the new Anaconda far more confusing and
difficult than any of the others.

-- 
Grant