From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 24 18:30:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 015A91065676 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:30:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Lowell@Be-Well.Ilk.Org) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE4F88FC18 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:30:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 3509 invoked from network); 24 Dec 2009 18:04:02 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Dec 2009 18:04:02 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A03105082E; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:03:56 -0500 (EST) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id EAFA91CC37; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:03:55 -0500 (EST) From: Lowell Gilbert To: "Julian H. Stacey" References: <1261596182.00198604.1261583403@10.7.7.3> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:03:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1261596182.00198604.1261583403@10.7.7.3> (Julian H. Stacey's message of "Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:48:38 +0100") Message-ID: <44ws0c5jw4.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why BSDs got no love X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:30:45 -0000 "Julian H. Stacey" writes: > Randi Harper wrote: >> Sure, once someone writes something everyone can agree upon. Until >> then, sorry, you're stuck with sysinstall. :) > > Yes, & All will never agree, it's schismatic, sort of thing > attractive to PCBSD DesktopBSD or Yet-Another-BSD forks/front ends, > or about as endless discussion as which brewery brews best beer :-) But less useful, going by the historical record. The various breweries are already producing their products, and I may find new favorites by discussing them. But discussing what an installer should do is useless unless somebody implements the ideas under discussion. I'd be happy to see any manner of improvements to/over sysinstall, but not enough to implement them myself. [Not even close.]