Date: 24 Jan 2002 11:32:35 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was "Re: ... RedHat ...") Message-ID: <zzd6zz8rzg.6zz@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20020124010710.C2760@over-yonder.net> References: <20020124004312.A2760@over-yonder.net> <20020123224541.E32624-100000@localhost> <20020124010710.C2760@over-yonder.net>
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"Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> writes: > Well, in the simple cases (i.e., what most people do most of the time), > when you don't make big mistakes, that's exactly how it is; and that's > one reason why, warts and all, it's endured so long; it works just well > enough that nobody can quite get up the gumption to start from scratch > (which is necessary) to write a new one (for free), because "Somebody > will do it Some Time Real Soon Now", but it's broken enough that we can > all bitch about it constantly until that Real Soon Now time comes. :-) I've been wondering how many people have assumed that someone else is already working on a sysinstall replacement after reading the entry for http://www.freebsd.org/projects/libh.html on the reference on http://www.freebsd.org/projects/index.html which says "It also includes the beginnings of a new sysinstall." The libh site show activity as recently as 20'jan'02, but it's not quickly obvious just what they intend to develop or what remains to be done. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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