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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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In response to Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>:

> Any other related projects to improve the installer? I *KNOW* it isn't the most
> important part of the system, but every bit counts, and I think that having
> both a ncurses and a GUI (non-ncurses ;) )based installer would be quite nice
> and modern. And I'd be definitely happy to help where I can. PC-BSD has one,
> right? 

The community _is_ aware of the deficiency.  It just hasn't completed an
acceptable replacement yet.  Probably the best known attempt was libh:

http://www.freebsd.org/projects/libh.html

The libh project is just waiting around for someone to revitalize it.

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Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.