From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 14:56:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B28414F30; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:56:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.10.0.Beta10/8.10.0.Beta10) with ESMTP id dBEMuIo41197; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:56:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:56:18 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: Mike Smith Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? In-Reply-To: <199912142108.NAA01437@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Today Mike Smith wrote: > > Given the primary mission of sysinstall is to load FreeBSD, I'd > > go so far as to say that developing an X version would be wasting > > valuable developer resources (IMHO, of course). > > It's a painful tradeoff between functionality and flash. The latter is > an unfortunate necessity if we are to avoid looking hopelessly outdated. Not arguing the point in reguard to the "unwashed masses", but when an NT[hates it]/Novell admin watched me install FreeBSD last week his opinion of sysinstall was that it was about the cleanest and most straight forward install program he's seen. Guess he, like I, is more concerned with functionality than flash. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message