Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 00:10:07 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@queasyweasel.com> To: <timh@tjhawkins.com> Cc: core@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hmm... why? Message-ID: <634F4BD9-AD51-11D8-8CA9-000393BB9222@queasyweasel.com> In-Reply-To: <003601c4415a$dc14cfb0$6501a8c0@yourw92p4bhlzg> References: <003601c4415a$dc14cfb0$6501a8c0@yourw92p4bhlzg>
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On May 23, 2004, at 11:46 PM, <timh@tjhawkins.com> wrote: > why does freebsd need a new installer? Why not allow the current > installer "sysinstall" to just become user friendly..edit it and add > new things to it... possilby even adding a graphical interface that > works with it. It's all possible and correct me if I'm wrong--wouldn't > it be less work? If sysinstall was just more userfriendly it would > work very well. Go give it a try. Once you're done wrestling with the code for awhile in an effort to "just make it more user friendly", you can answer your own question. > As for porting a Linux installer to FreeBSD... I do not recommend > it. there will be alot of conflict about the GPL vs. BSD licenses and > we all know what kind of war that starts. I personally think freebsd > should have its own installer under its own license. I think you sell the FreeBSD community a bit short. The issue is not GPL vs BSD, and if there were a good, generic installation framework that could be adapted to FreeBSD and was under the GPL, I don't think people would blink twice at it. The problem with the Linux installers isn't that they're GPL'd, it's that they're written to be very specific to the distribution they're installing and make a lot of assumptions about low-level Linux-specific partitioning methods and such. -- Jordan K. Hubbard Engineering Manager, BSD technology group Apple Computerhelp
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