From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 18 02:08:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA29988 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 02:08:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.ftf.dk (root@mail.ftf.dk [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA29913; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 02:08:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk) Received: from mail.prosa.dk ([192.168.100.2]) by firewall.ftf.dk (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA01310; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:55:39 +0100 Received: from deepo.prosa.dk (deepo.prosa.dk [192.168.100.10]) by mail.prosa.dk (8.8.5/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) with ESMTP id LAA03496; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:14:01 +0100 (CET) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by deepo.prosa.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) id LAA11328; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:06:44 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19980218110644.39878@deepo.prosa.dk> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:06:44 +0100 From: Philippe Regnauld To: Mike Smith Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MGR and libvgl References: <19980218105421.22793@deepo.prosa.dk> <199802181002.CAA00727@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199802181002.CAA00727@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 02:02:49AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith writes: > > > But its fast & very small compared to X, ideal for small machines... > > > Could be in the kernel for a true graphic OS... > ... > > Can you say "GUI Install & admin" ? :-) > > Can you say "it doesn't run on a character terminal"? Thought you hated them . Just kidding. I'll refer to a previous post from Jordan: there is no way the character based install will disappear. I for one wouldn't use a GUI to install FreeBSD. Just thought it's make a nice suggestion for the great Abstracted-Modular-Install API design. No, I haven't written it yet :-P -- -[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]- «Pluto placed his bad dog at the entrance of Hades to keep the dead IN and the living OUT! The archetypical corporate firewall?» - S. Kelly Bootle, ("MYTHOLOGY", in Marutukku distrib) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message