From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thompson, David" Subject: Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing. Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 22:23:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20170104075928.GA23509@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52424) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cPL7g-00085n-Dh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2017 22:23:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cPL7f-0003jJ-Ja for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2017 22:23:20 -0500 Received: from mail-ua0-x234.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c08::234]:36579) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cPL7f-0003j0-Dp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2017 22:23:19 -0500 Received: by mail-ua0-x234.google.com with SMTP id 88so390795931uaq.3 for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:23:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20170104075928.GA23509@jocasta.intra> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel Hi John, On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:59 AM, John Darrington wrote: > The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. > > This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk > images used for installing GuixSD. It is intended to allow users > unfamiliar with bash and other aspects of unix-like operating systems > to easily install GuixSD. This means, it should allow you to install > GuixSD on a bare PC, without ever touching a shell (whilst still > providing that option for those who want it). I don't have any real feedback, but I just want to say that this is an awesome initiative that will make GuixSD accessible to many more people! Thanks for working on this! - Dave