Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:11:36 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Experience Message-ID: <20060911121136.298d7e44.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <20060911154439.GA1247@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <000001c6d520$292f6700$0c01a8c0@DELL8400> <20060911053240.30d8117d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20060912010120.1aeb2c28@localhost> <20060911113856.7d6cb435.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20060911154439.GA1247@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk>
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In response to Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>: > On 2006 Sep 11, Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>: > > > > > Any other related projects to improve the installer? I *KNOW* it isn't the most > > > important part of the system, but every bit counts, and I think that having > > > both a ncurses and a GUI (non-ncurses ;) )based installer would be quite nice > > > and modern. And I'd be definitely happy to help where I can. PC-BSD has one, > > > right? > > > > The community _is_ aware of the deficiency. It just hasn't completed an > > acceptable replacement yet. Probably the best known attempt was libh: > > I'm very happy with the installer as it is. I usually use floppies and > then install via ftp, so I'd prefer to keep the installer as small as > possible. Maybe even ncurses is not necessary. One of the goals of libh was to build a library that could display in a number of different ways: i.e. graphical or curses. It's possible that libh stalled because their goals were too lofty ... -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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