Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:55:39 +1000 From: George Michaelson <ggm@dstc.edu.au> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <15433.945215739@dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> of "Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:40:43 CST." <19991214174043.X868@holly.calldei.com>
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Argh!!! SMIT! Hack! Puke! Why do we have to make FreeBSD more like HP-UX? the most sucky UNIX ever invented apart from AIX? Those of us old enough to remember the SunView install tool with graphical disk icons and the amazing 'free disk hog' barchart partition manager, while finding it vaguely entertaining, could not in all concience say its a 'better' way to install a machine. After the first 10, you generally prefer to do something else anyway. And those icons of 5and1/4 in hard disk boxes become so dated, I mean who is going to draw the littley bittley disk icons each year, and are we going to wind up with skins, and will it make /. (like I care) sysinstall is perfectly good enough as an engine. If you want to emulate the new Anaconda Python/tk interface for Linux why not just run it instead of re-inventing it? Not all apps need a GUI. cat -v as a term of abuse seems to be a concept vanishing from the language... cheers -George -- George Michaelson | DSTC Pty Ltd Email: ggm@dstc.edu.au | University of Qld 4072 Phone: +61 7 3365 4310 | Australia Fax: +61 7 3365 4311 | http://www.dstc.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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