From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 17 03:01:30 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E27E816A468 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:01:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from walkingshadow@grummel.net) Received: from mail1.bytemine.net (mat.bytemine.net [193.41.144.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9358E13C481 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:01:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from walkingshadow@grummel.net) Received: from 4be54-4-82-234-154-189.fbx.proxad.net ([82.234.154.189]:13491 helo=mailsvr.my.domain) by mail1.bytemine.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HIFVZ-0007Vy-RP for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:41:07 +0100 Received: from [10.0.0.12] (ip-83-99-26-200.dyn.luxdsl.pt.lu [83.99.26.200]) by mailsvr.my.domain (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7015456E0 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:40:37 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45D66B3F.6030702@my.domain> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:41:03 +0100 From: Jona Joachim User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: sysinstall vs BSD Installer X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:01:31 -0000 Hi! There has been a lot of discussion recently about whether sysinstall should be replaced or not. The purpose of sysinstall is to initially install FreeBSD and it serves this purpose quite well. However sysinstall is also the first thing a new user gets to see of FreeBSD. People which are used to shiny Linux Live CDs with Framebuffer boot sequences and all the jewelry are shoked when they are confronted with the ncurses interface and walk away most of the time. This is a pity because you really use the installer once every couple of years and it says nothing about the OS. Would it be worth considering to provide the BSD Installer [1] as an alternate choice to sysinstall for a default FreeBSD installation? I'm sure several people already thought of it and it might be interesting to hear their conclusions. Regards, Jona [1] http://www.bsdinstaller.com/