From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 1 11:40:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BEED14FFA for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:40:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA17864; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:40:59 -0700 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:40:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Steve Ames Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lizard... In-Reply-To: <199907011834.NAA57517@ns1.cioe.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > if it gave me lots more diagnostics. Joe Average, on the other hand, > likes a spiffy, clean interface. We try to accomodate both types by > having a simplistic install and then some detail output on a seperate > VTY. This could still be done with an even spiffier graphical installation > on the first VTY. Possibly. It's not clear what or who "Joe Average" is here. I suspect that 99% of all computer users (by volume) get their s/w preinstalled. The amount of sophistication of the remaining 1% who actually struggle through so-called "spiffy" installs is growing exponentially. Keeping a simple interface rather than trying to play human engineering with no real human interfaces lab and a 500K$ testing budget might be better. Just my 2 cents... I'll shut up now... (I mean, why should *I* beef so much? I'm not writing or maintaining sysinst...) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message