Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 01:52:29 GMT From: Stephen Hocking <sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sup: Ok, I'm gonna do it. Message-ID: <199502080152.BAA23286@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au>
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>> But, the proposal is to tie our installation mechanism or perhaps our system >> adminstration/setup system to VGA hardware. For me, and those like me, who >> collect raggedy old scraps, and retired PC's, and test FreeBSD on them, or >> build special purpose FreeBSD boxes out of them, this means tossing out >> half of them because they have EGA or MONO video cards. Damn shame, and a >> total waste. > >Look, kindness to old hardware is well and good but you need to draw >the line somewhere when it comes to retarding progress for it. Just >as you can't give `full service' to someone with a very small disk >(they're not going to be able to take advantage of your sources, or >perhaps X, or the ports, or ... and thus will perceive FreeBSD very >differently) so you're not going to be able to support the more >advanced features on aging hardware. That's just the breaks. Nobody >said that the traditional command-line tools wouldn't be still >supported - people with specialized configurations will still be able >to type ifconfig, netstat, ping, ... by hand without any advanced tool >holding their hand or other suitable appendage. In fact, they'll probably >*prefer* to. > Will the new installation stuff use something like the dialog library hacked to run under X - I can't see why we are not able to run up something that will work under curses & X automagically. Maybe the dialog stuff is a good spot to start, unless someone has already done something cool for tcl/tk. Stephen
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