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Date:      Tue, 03 Feb 1998 18:33:59 +0000
From:      John Paul Lonie <jp@zip.com.au>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@sunyit.edu>
Cc:        Joe Shevland <joe.shevland@horizonti.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs YOU. :-)
Message-ID:  <34D76316.9404EE5B@zip.com.au>
References:  <199801280040.AAA10165@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>

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Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> there's no point of a "pixel" graphical install for several reasons:
> a) i don't think it is a good idea to limit this product to graphical
> systems(i run a 586/133 with a mono card)
> b) it should work over telnet for remote config.
> c) by the time someone has X and java up and running why would they even
> need it? :)
> d) it should be small and not require so much disk space...
>
> maybe if it had an optional graphical front end that sorta immitated the
> text interface for up and running systems.... that would be cool
>

HPUX has a nice admin utility called SAM which has a X front end and a txt
front end ( in 11.00 they have added a java version) The best part is that you
have the sam abilities from all the versions. This sort of system should be
what we aim at.

> as a side option beside the "niceness" of using java to code, why code it
> in java? it will be for freebsd machines, running on x86 hardware (although
> i hope some ports work out) using freebsd utilities to commit tasks... so
> almost any lang you use will be portable to all versions of freebsd...

Not all people only run FreeBSD. Portability and real world usability can only
help FreeBSD in the long run.

Regards,
John Paul Lonie

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