From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 11 16:11:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33F7716A417 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:11:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 812D443D55 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:11:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from collaborativefusion.com (mx01.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.201]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:11:37 -0400 id 0005641C.45058AB9.00012A37 Received: from Internal Mail-Server (206.210.89.202) by mx01 (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 11 Sep 2006 12:08:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:11:36 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Anton Shterenlikht Message-Id: <20060911121136.298d7e44.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <20060911154439.GA1247@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <000001c6d520$292f6700$0c01a8c0@DELL8400> <20060911053240.30d8117d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20060912010120.1aeb2c28@localhost> <20060911113856.7d6cb435.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20060911154439.GA1247@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Experience X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:11:39 -0000 In response to Anton Shterenlikht : > On 2006 Sep 11, Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Norberto Meijome : > > > > > Any other related projects to improve the installer? I *KNOW* it isn't the most > > > important part of the system, but every bit counts, and I think that having > > > both a ncurses and a GUI (non-ncurses ;) )based installer would be quite nice > > > and modern. And I'd be definitely happy to help where I can. PC-BSD has one, > > > right? > > > > The community _is_ aware of the deficiency. It just hasn't completed an > > acceptable replacement yet. Probably the best known attempt was libh: > > I'm very happy with the installer as it is. I usually use floppies and > then install via ftp, so I'd prefer to keep the installer as small as > possible. Maybe even ncurses is not necessary. One of the goals of libh was to build a library that could display in a number of different ways: i.e. graphical or curses. It's possible that libh stalled because their goals were too lofty ... -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.