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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 1999 19:45:37 -0600
From:      Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To:        George Michaelson <ggm@dstc.edu.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?
Message-ID:  <19991214194537.A868@holly.calldei.com>
In-Reply-To: <15433.945215739@dstc.edu.au>
References:  <chris@calldei.com> <15433.945215739@dstc.edu.au>

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On Wed, Dec 15, 1999, George Michaelson wrote:
> Why do we have to make FreeBSD more like HP-UX? the most sucky UNIX ever
> invented apart from AIX?

   Is this a fact?  I always sort of liked HP-UX.  Not as fun as
FreeBSD for obvious reasons, but...

> sysinstall is perfectly good enough as an engine.

   No it's not.  Ask its author, for one.  You can read what he's
had to say about it throughout this whole thread.

> If you want to emulate the new Anaconda Python/tk interface for Linux why
> not just run it instead of re-inventing it?

   Why do everything just to be like Linux?  Who says we can't be
inventive on our own?

-- 
|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
|Drive defensively -- buy a tank.
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