From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 11:21:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D8DC1559A for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 11:21:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id TAA26090; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:20:13 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00890; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:34:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:34:24 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Chris Costello Cc: Mark Newton , Peter Jeremy , Donn Miller , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <19991215193424.C447@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <2177.945155945@zippy.cdrom.com> <3855F364.E66EC87B@cvzoom.net> <99Dec15.073843est.40325@border.alcanet.com.au> <19991215083352.B3500@internode.com.au> <19991215000600.C77327@yedi.iaf.nl> <19991214174432.Y868@holly.calldei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <19991214174432.Y868@holly.calldei.com>; from chris@calldei.com on Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 05:44:32PM -0600 X-OS: FreeBSD yedi.iaf.nl 3.3-STABLE FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 05:44:32PM -0600, Chris Costello wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > This does, however, have all the risks of building yet another SMIT or > > SAM. :-( Neither attempt at making Unix sysadm 'user-friendly' makes > > me want to cheer. > > What do you want in making Unix quick to administer? Seems to > me that's the real goal of those things. Click click click done, > you know. Click-click, hosed up beyond repair. What I mean to say is that GUI != easy to administer. M$ has plenty of examples available. The really hard part is to design something that really appeals to the (general) sense of what is a logic. Assuming there is an universal logic to sysadmin-ing. I happen to really like the current installer. OK, it has some rough edges maybe and as I understand the inner workings are labeled 'There be dragons here' but from the outside it is not too bad. What's more, total newbies to FreeBSD can learn to work with it pretty easily. W/ -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands - The FreeBSD Project WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message