Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 08:15:14 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The GUI debate Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970903080757.6746E-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199709030739.AAA00286@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote: > Sure my "floppy" holds about 600mb -- fill that up 8) > > In other words, is nice to have a unified install program however > given that we now have bootable CDROMS I don't see why everyone should > be subjected to the least common denominator. I think the word "common" is the key point here. It is fine to have a glitzy solution for the minority with bootable CDROMs, but if development of the single floppy install suffers as a result, far more users will be lost that gained. For the tasks involved in getting the system installed, a bitmaped GUI offers precious little except glitz, relative to the implementation cost. Once the system is installed and the configuration tasks take over, we have a different story, but we also have in installed system to run off of so the issue is moot. (Except, of course, for systems without graphics capaility.) -john
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