Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:23:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> To: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>, Randi Harper <sektie@freebsdgirl.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sysinstall colours Message-ID: <permail-2009101321235680e26a0b00003c04-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> In-Reply-To: <4AD23C1C.8040300@daleco.biz>
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Kevin Kinsey schrieb am 2009-10-11: > Alexander Best wrote: > >>Seriously?!?!?! All the problems with sysinstall, and your idea is > >>to > >>change > >>the color? Are you trying to start a bikeshed? If so, I prefer > >>pink. > >>-- randi > I'm painting the little girl's room next week and might have > some leftover interior latex, if that will do. Oh, but, it's > outside, so prolly not. Sorry. Or, do you want your pink > bikeshed in the garage? ;-) > >current developers don't seem to have any interest in improving > >sysinstall. so > >it's important to get new people involved in freebsd. and the way > >to do that > >is with an attractive looking installer and an easy installation > >process imo. > I don't want to be harsh, but do you know what you're talking about? > Randi, for one, has taken on the zombie known as sysinstall with a > nice big shotgun, and is attempting to keep adding a few features > here/there as needed to keep up with necessities while other > developers (AFAIK) work on other projects, including, at last count, > a couple differnet possibilities for installers. It's apparently > been rather daunting work, and, as a result, the new installer, > whatever its name is/will be, isn't ready for inclusion with 8.0. > However, a day is coming ... > Kevin Kinsey just did a quick research and google soc sponsored the finstaller in 2007 and the bsdinstaller in 2005. personally if i spent a lot of time on such a project i'd be expecting it to get integrated into the base system. if not i'd get rather upset and would probably switch to linux or opensolaris. just my 2 cents. alex
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