From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 17:45:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE48150BB for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:45:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org ([216.62.157.60]) by mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with ESMTP id <0FMR008BRE40JF@mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net> for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 19:43:13 -0600 (CST) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA08233; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 19:45:38 -0600 (CST envelope-from chris) X-URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~chris/ Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 19:45:37 -0600 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? In-reply-to: <15433.945215739@dstc.edu.au> To: George Michaelson Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <19991214194537.A868@holly.calldei.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) References: <15433.945215739@dstc.edu.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 15, 1999, George Michaelson wrote: > Why do we have to make FreeBSD more like HP-UX? the most sucky UNIX ever > invented apart from AIX? Is this a fact? I always sort of liked HP-UX. Not as fun as FreeBSD for obvious reasons, but... > sysinstall is perfectly good enough as an engine. No it's not. Ask its author, for one. You can read what he's had to say about it throughout this whole thread. > If you want to emulate the new Anaconda Python/tk interface for Linux why > not just run it instead of re-inventing it? Why do everything just to be like Linux? Who says we can't be inventive on our own? -- |Chris Costello |Drive defensively -- buy a tank. `---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message