From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 14 22: 2:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25402156C3 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 22:02:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA11833; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:02:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990914223309.0489dc40@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:02:13 -0600 To: Marc Schneiders From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: FreeBSD Distributions: Leveling the playing field Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Jonathan Lemon , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.0.58.19990914140446.04b44100@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:31 AM 9/15/99 +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote: >Just curious: Have you got this fancy installer ready? I have a prototype installer in Perl that configures a system the way I do for most of my clients. It does most of what sysinstall does and many things it doesn't. It's still not everything I want it to be, though. Even precompiled, it takes up nearlly a whole 'nother floppy, which you have to mount after the system has booted. The UI needs a lot of polishing. On the plus side, it's bulletproofable (I won't claim that it's bulletproof, but rather that it has hooks to make it so), and almost TOO powerful and flexible for the job. In short, it's at the "OK, you've proven the concept; now tear it up and rewrite it correctly from scratch" stage. For which I'd like to bring in another programmer or two. This is only one of the things I'd like to do in a new distribution. There are lots of things I'd like to bundle and add, some of which would be licensed and others of which would be built. But I really need the product name to say that, at bottom, it's FreeBSD with some stuff I (and others) licensed or wrote. That's why the whole trademark thing. And even if I pared it down, the hyperinstaller, plus some of the added stuff, would likely push some of the material that's now on the first CD-ROM off the disk. (It'd go onto another disk, or -- for economy's sake -- onto the Net for retrieval if the user desired it.) But I don't see why this should be a problem as long as everything is accessible. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message