Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 18:26:37 +0200 From: Philipp Ost <pj@smo.de> To: John Walthall <vistua@sdf.lonestar.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE Message-ID: <464DD3BD.2020809@smo.de> In-Reply-To: <20070518150912.GA19343@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <3aaaa3a0705170830g46487cc7occc8a51b82a9118b@mail.gmail.com> <1179420667.87418.22.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <20070517181006.GB69514@icarus.home.lan> <20070518150912.GA19343@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
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John Walthall wrote: > And let's not forget the infamous geometry bug! For me, at least sysinstall > has always, 100% of the time, incorrectly detected my disc geometry. Same here. I ignored it every time and got no problems at all... > Sysinstall is adequate, nothing more, nothing less. I don't mean though, to > belittle the efforts of the developers; these days people are going to > expect it to be polished on the order of YaST, which is ridiculous. Sysinstall > is functional. Full ACK. > Although irritated, variously, by every one of these issues, I am most concerned > about the geometry bug, it looks lackadaisical. The only other concern I have is the I-don't-know-which-field-is-in-focus-bug. But I have to admit that I rarely use sysinstall, so I don't bother that much... > If people have trouble with sysinstall-the-configuration-tool, perhaps they > might examine sysutils/webmin? That my be true for post-installation situations, but it doesn't help those people who want to *install* FreeBSD on their machines... Just my 2 cent Philipp -- www.familie-ost.info/~pj
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