From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 13 21:53:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D08821065694 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:53:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a_best01@uni-muenster.de) Received: from zivm-exrelay1.uni-muenster.de (ZIVM-EXRELAY1.UNI-MUENSTER.DE [128.176.192.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FCBD8FC16 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:53:42 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,553,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="285401633" Received: from zivmaildisp1.uni-muenster.de (HELO ZIVMAILUSER04.UNI-MUENSTER.DE) ([128.176.188.85]) by zivm-relay1.uni-muenster.de with ESMTP; 13 Oct 2009 23:23:57 +0200 Received: by ZIVMAILUSER04.UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Postfix, from userid 149459) id DEFB91B07BE; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:23:56 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:23:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Best Sender: Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster To: Kevin Kinsey , Randi Harper , FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4AD23C1C.8040300@daleco.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: sysinstall colours X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:53:42 -0000 Kevin Kinsey schrieb am 2009-10-11: > Alexander Best wrote: > >>Seriously?!?!?! All the problems with sysinstall, and your idea is > >>to > >>change > >>the color? Are you trying to start a bikeshed? If so, I prefer > >>pink. > >>-- randi > I'm painting the little girl's room next week and might have > some leftover interior latex, if that will do. Oh, but, it's > outside, so prolly not. Sorry. Or, do you want your pink > bikeshed in the garage? ;-) > >current developers don't seem to have any interest in improving > >sysinstall. so > >it's important to get new people involved in freebsd. and the way > >to do that > >is with an attractive looking installer and an easy installation > >process imo. > I don't want to be harsh, but do you know what you're talking about? > Randi, for one, has taken on the zombie known as sysinstall with a > nice big shotgun, and is attempting to keep adding a few features > here/there as needed to keep up with necessities while other > developers (AFAIK) work on other projects, including, at last count, > a couple differnet possibilities for installers. It's apparently > been rather daunting work, and, as a result, the new installer, > whatever its name is/will be, isn't ready for inclusion with 8.0. > However, a day is coming ... > Kevin Kinsey just did a quick research and google soc sponsored the finstaller in 2007 and the bsdinstaller in 2005. personally if i spent a lot of time on such a project i'd be expecting it to get integrated into the base system. if not i'd get rather upset and would probably switch to linux or opensolaris. just my 2 cents. alex