Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 00:33:38 +0000 From: "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: "Doug Barton" <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: small purposal for change in installworld Message-ID: <bef9a7920710041733vde0d5f7pf3c05be596557710@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710041657040.17632@qbhto.arg> References: <bef9a7920710021757kc553836g8aae00ca139830f6@mail.gmail.com> <bef9a7920710021836x18b58eecy8c5c15740f12cca8@mail.gmail.com> <bef9a7920710021837v6315cc6dx5c3acbd1f9ebff0@mail.gmail.com> <4703218B.7000603@webvolution.net> <bef9a7920710022205je1df326qe3095736efe6104a@mail.gmail.com> <47036164.4040609@moneybookers.com> <bef9a7920710030237g4a3d2cfpc86e563d4a40367d@mail.gmail.com> <470368AA.30108@moneybookers.com> <bef9a7920710030319q17cf441ew27cae132c90b4a3c@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710041657040.17632@qbhto.arg>
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On 10/5/07, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > > Sorry for being a little abrasive... my main point is we should aim > > for more of a "point and click" style of doing things... apple and ms > > have done it pretty well for the average case. > > I think your mistake is in thinking that this is a goal shared by the > developers who actually do the work on the base system. I say this as > someone who has actually spent quite a lot of time working on parts of the > system that make maintenance, operation, and UI issues "easier" for users. I never meant point and click in the ui sense... enough private discussion with various kernel level developers has clarified that... if a particular developer agrees to a purposal I made I will probally be helping out with imrpoving ULE. > > There is a certain level below which you can't go without radically > changing the "personality" of the project. Several people have pointed you > to other projects that use FreeBSD as the OS but add more user-friendly > stuff on top. I think this is a good approach, and my read of the > developer community is that this is the direction things will go in the > future as well. As I have said in the private discussions with various people on this thread to fully implement most of my ideas requires a ground up rewrite of the whole OS (which I am *NOT* asking anyone to do... but I am using FreeBSD as the development springboard for this [my own work])
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