[chef] Re: Omnibus Client installer open beta

[Andrea Campi < >]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Bryan McLellan 
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 wrote:
> We've been building and testing a Chef feature for a while now that we
> call Omnibus.
>
> Sometimes getting a good version of Ruby and the right libraries on a
> system can be daunting and makes a difficult Chef install for
> newcomers. Today I'd like to release the Omnibus Client for open beta.
> This includes the latest version of the chef-client and everything you
> need to run it.
>
> Head over to http://www.opscode.com/chef/install where we have pull
> down menus for the operating systems we've tested it on, and the
> simple instructions for installing it.

There's something I don't quite get: what's the point of having the pull down?

At the end of the day, it just shows instructions for either
Unix-derivatives or Windows—wouldn't a radio box work just as well?

Andrea