Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:34:36 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@queasyweasel.com> Cc: timh@tjhawkins.com Subject: Re: Hmm... why? Message-ID: <20040524083436.GA718@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <634F4BD9-AD51-11D8-8CA9-000393BB9222@queasyweasel.com> References: <003601c4415a$dc14cfb0$6501a8c0@yourw92p4bhlzg> <634F4BD9-AD51-11D8-8CA9-000393BB9222@queasyweasel.com>
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On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 12:10:07AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: ... > > 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. Apart from that I have yet to see a Linux installer that does not make me run for the hills.. sysinstall might not be it, but the Linux installers are by no means better. IMO etc. -- | / o / /_ _ |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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