From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 4 14: 4:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFEF537B405 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:04:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 33675 invoked by uid 100); 4 Sep 2001 21:04:07 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15253.16839.929067.980049@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:04:07 -0500 To: "Kory Hamzeh" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Contributing to FreeBSD (was: userland firewall ?) In-Reply-To: <006401c1357a$c782b9c0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> References: <15252.28617.61423.224978@guru.mired.org> <006401c1357a$c782b9c0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kory Hamzeh types: > I must admit, though, that Linux is a little bit easier (friendlier) to > install for the non-unix hackers. That may have a lot do to with it. Maybe > we, the FBSD community, can learn a little from that. There are many pages of gotchas, ands and buts, starting with "which Linux distro are you talking about" and ending with "will it install with a serial console." I'll be glad to provide details offline, or you can ask on -advocacy where I'm sure someone will answer. However, the problem is being addressed, in two different ways. First, the idiosyncrasies of libdialog that make doing a FreeBSD install so twitchy are being addressed, and that should show up in 4.4. Second, the entire install process and package facility is being reworked, but I don't believe that's planned for 5.0 - but it would be great if it made it. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message