From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 20 04:23:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3047B16A4CF for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 04:23:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.finnovative.net (mail.finnovative.net [204.247.59.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B9843D2F for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 04:23:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linuxuser@finnovative.net) Received: from [192.168.1.49] ([192.168.55.1]) by mail.finnovative.net over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:23:49 -0800 Message-ID: <4218107A.8050508@finnovative.net> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:22:18 -0800 From: Joaquin Menchaca User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Feb 2005 04:23:49.0540 (UTC) FILETIME=[F9EE1E40:01C51703] Subject: Any thoughts on Graphical install UI? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 04:23:50 -0000 Hi, Many Linux flavors both commericial and free have attractive UIs for installation and package selection, and even to some degree partitioning and formatting of hard drives. Is there any thought of doing this for FreeBSD? Having an attractive UI, ala Fedora and/or gentoo would definately help attract more novice users to the FreeBSD world. Just a thought. Don't know if this was discussed before, as I'm a newbie. :-) -- jm