From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 17 01:00:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0CCC1065672 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:00:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from motoom@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.39]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 800DB8FC1A for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:00:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pasta.gandhi.xs4all.nl (gandhi.xs4all.nl [83.161.213.238]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n9H103qB068585; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:00:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from motoom@xs4all.nl) From: Michiel Overtoom To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:00:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4AD23C1C.8040300@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910170300.01339.motoom@xs4all.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Subject: Re: sysinstall colours 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: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:00:06 -0000 On Friday 16 October 2009, Randi Harper wrote: > Personally if I spent a lot of time on such a project, I'd be sure to have > the "is this going to make it into freebsd base?" conversation first. I think there's no doubt about it that 'sysinstall' will feature in the next FreeBSD too. It will! Keep up the good work! It's worth it. The sysinstall manual page makes two apocalyptical remarks about itself: 1. "This product is currently at the end of its life cycle and will eventually be replaced." 2. "This utility is a prototype which lasted several years past its expiration date and is greatly in need of death." These doomsayings are wrong. To date no serious contenders have surfaced and up until that time sysinstall does its job, underappreciated perhaps, but it does it reasonably well, and adequately. Now that it is back in the focus, we can look to a bright, evolutionary future for sysinstall. alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: > personally if i spent a lot of time on such a project i'd be expecting it > to get integrated into the base system. if not i'd get rather upset and > would probably switch to linux or opensolaris. I wouldn't switch operating systems just because something in the installer bugged me. Some enhancements I made to OSS and were rejected by the maintainers also didn't make me abandon that software. Greetings, Michiel Overtoom, Software developer. -- "The ability of the OSS process to collect and harness the collective IQ of thousands of individuals across the Internet is simply amazing." - Vinod Valloppillil http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween4.html