Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 09:32:56 -0500 From: Marina Brown <mbrown@btnaccess.com> To: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: my thoughts on FreeBSD Message-ID: <200403020932.56458.> In-Reply-To: <200403011329.25897.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> References: <20040301210843.64256.qmail@web41109.mail.yahoo.com> <200403011329.25897.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
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I've taught a number of non-technical people to install the BSD's and som= e=20 linux's. With almost no exeptions they preferred the simpler installs.=20 Slackware installs as well as OpenBSD installs were what they liked best. They did enjoy the Red Hat installs, but they liked the simple installs=20 better. It's easy to want to look like windows, but let's face it. An Operating s= ystem cannot be all things to all people. Marina Brown On Monday 01 March 2004 04:29 pm, Johnson David wrote: > On Monday 01 March 2004 01:08 pm, Scott I. Remick wrote: > > 3) Old cruft. Apparently a lot of people are too scared of the whole > > ncurses/sysinstall beast to dare revamping it. It works, and it's > > tried-and-tested. It's easier and safer to make minor modifications > > to support new versions than to overhaul it. > > > > I wouldn't mind a GUI option, if there were enough people to maintain > > it, but it'd need to only be an option (leaving the current ncurses > > install or some other equivalently-easy text-based install for the > > die-hards). And then you'd have to make sure there were people around > > enough to support 2 separate install scripts (unless a text-based one > > could be automatically generated from the GUI one somehow, using > > templates). > > The sysinstall implementation started out as a quick-n-dirty hack, but > unfortunately it lived on. I've been pondering the solution to this for > a few months now. Frankly I don't see the absolute need for a GUI > installer, but it's certainly a nice thing to have. But a text mode > installer is essential. So the first step is to get a well designed > text mode installer. > > The libh project (sysinstall replacement) is dead. I've have some ideas > on this topic, but it's a bit more than I can do on my own. However, > the only way stuff gets done in FreeBSD is for someone to get an itch > and do it, so I'll probably end up doing something soon. > > David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.= org"
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