Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:16:21 -0800 (PST) From: Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com> To: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9912141515440.2273-100000@luna.lyris.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912141749430.39489-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
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Most people I have shown the FreeBSD installer are much more impressed with it than Redhat's snazzy GUI. -Kip On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, jack wrote: > Today Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Given the primary mission of sysinstall is to load FreeBSD, I'd > > > go so far as to say that developing an X version would be wasting > > > valuable developer resources (IMHO, of course). > > > > It's a painful tradeoff between functionality and flash. The latter is > > an unfortunate necessity if we are to avoid looking hopelessly outdated. > > Not arguing the point in reguard to the "unwashed masses", but > when an NT[hates it]/Novell admin watched me install FreeBSD last > week his opinion of sysinstall was that it was about the cleanest > and most straight forward install program he's seen. Guess he, > like I, is more concerned with functionality than flash. :) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst > jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. > Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. > PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD > enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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