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Date:      Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:11:36 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
To:        Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Newbie Experience
Message-ID:  <20060911121136.298d7e44.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060911154439.GA1247@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk>
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In response to Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>:

> On 2006 Sep 11, Bill Moran wrote:
> > 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:
> 
> I'm very happy with the installer as it is. I usually use floppies and
> then install via ftp, so I'd prefer to keep the installer as small as
> possible. Maybe even ncurses is not necessary.

One of the goals of libh was to build a library that could display in a
number of different ways: i.e. graphical or curses.

It's possible that libh stalled because their goals were too lofty ...

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.



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