From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 7:29: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5881F15220 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 07:29:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p13-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.132.6.142]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id AAA19709; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:27:44 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3857B2C4.3CA62441@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:24:52 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Adam Strohl , Ryan Thompson , Peter Jeremy , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? References: <51308.945234648@zippy.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > VESA syscons, either using libvgl and an array of crude widgets or > something like MGR and its widget set, has long been on the wish-list > but I didn't even include it in my summary since it's still very much > a pipe-dream. :-) There's actually one mode you forgot, which is Since no one seems to have spoken of it yet... GGI! GGI! I bet their X server is far smaller than XFree's, and we don't even _have_ to usa an X server. > what I call "text mode", and that's straight ascii prompts, no CUI-style > dialog boxes or anything. Think about text-to-speach devices for > the blind or serial consoles attached to really *dumb* terminals. :-) Sounds like CLI. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message