From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 24 11:29:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B09B237B416 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:29:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CAD2BD96; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:29:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA10027; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:29:53 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0OJWZN02384; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:32:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was "Re: ... RedHat ...") References: <20020124004312.A2760@over-yonder.net> <20020123224541.E32624-100000@localhost> <20020124010710.C2760@over-yonder.net> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 24 Jan 2002 11:32:35 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020124010710.C2760@over-yonder.net> Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Matthew D. Fuller" 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