Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 05:00:15 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: my thoughts on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20040303045758.S79809@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <20040301210843.64256.qmail@web41109.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040301210843.64256.qmail@web41109.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Scott I. Remick wrote: > > --- Matt Jarjoura <matt@tasonline.com> wrote: > > > A) RedHat and SUSE both have GUI installers. -- Honestly, how > > important is it that FreeBSD remain a TUI-only menu based > > installation-?? Sure it's simple, but screen-shots of it sure don't > > appear appetizing to ISPs in a 2 week window. > > Actually, it's important for 3 reasons: > > 1) Compatibility. You can't even depend on 640x480 working on every piece of > hardware you might wish to install FreeBSD on. Some embedded applications > can't do any graphics. > this is not an argument against GUI installer, but simply keeping another way open. > 2) Speed. I'm still rather green w/ FreeBSD compared to many, but I can fly > through the FreeBSD setup in just a few mins. > you could teh same with a gui installer on anything - gui speed is really unliekly to be an issue. > 3) Old cruft. Apparently a lot of people are too scared of the whole > ncurses/sysinstall beast to dare revamping it. It works, and it's > tried-and-tested. It's easier and safer to make minor modifications to > support new versions than to overhaul it. > This is a very good reason for killing it.
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