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> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 12:09:08 -0700
> From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>

> The most obvious way to do this, IMO, is to make FreeBSD
> more accessiblle for use in commercial ventures, be it
> embedded systems or as a backdrop for commercial software
> using it as a platform on which some company puts their
> own face forward.

To this end, I'd say:

* More emphasis on Pico
* Pick'n'choose which specifc files (not just sets)

> This means making it substantially easier to do things
> like building distributions with custom kernels, greatly
> simplified "default installation" type things, etc..

I'm not opposed to a GUI-based easy install and config, so
long as I don't have to use it or even have it on disk.  I
rather like sysinstall, and would _not_ want something GUI
or anything like RH's installer or YaST.


Eddy

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