From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 16:34: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 814B715206 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 16:34:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id DFDE22DC0A; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:34:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3EC4C7811; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:30:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C55E10E10; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:30:52 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:30:52 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Wilko Bulte , Mark Newton , Peter Jeremy , Donn Miller , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? In-Reply-To: <49974.945214329@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Something we also have to stay aware of in this discussion is the fact > that even if most hackers could give a fig for graphical installers > and consider them to be an unneeded bit of hand-holding, it would > still be nice to have a framework which stuff could drop into and be > accessed via a command line or turbovision type of interface. We're > not talking about writing multiple installers for each type of UI, > after all, since that would be an unreasonable duplication of labor. > We're talking about one installation/configuration code base which can > use either X or text mode interfaces at the user's discretion, so > both "camps" get what they want. I should perhaps mention here that there are windowing GUIs out there which are not X11. I know of two: W (almost dead, but quite sufficient), and Microwindows (very new, still quite limited, but under active development). Both use either VGA or VESA graphics. Both are very small (around 100kB). Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message