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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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>From The Desk Of John Fieber :
> On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 
> > Actually, if the user base increases due to a very wonderful and 
> > colorful install package perhaps we will have the problem of too
> > many programmers wanting to hack the install package.
> 
> So we abandon a majority of our user base because they can't
> install, then gain a new user base because of a glitzy install
> package?  Just indulge me for a moment: what, exactly, is wrong
> with the user base we currently have?  They don't have cool
> enough hardware?

Nothing is wrong with the existing user base -- they serve
a pre-historic purpose 8)

Jokes aside, I am not saying that we should abandon completly
the curses base package rather that is perhaps time to 
start thinking of an out of the box experience style 
install program for FreeBSD.

> Speaking of uncool hardware, I recently installed FreeBSD on a
> 386SL laptop with 6 megabytes of ram and an 80 megabyte hard
> drive.  The formerly useless piece of hardware is now very cool
> in my mind.  :)

What is a 386sl ? 8)


	Cheers,
	Amancio