Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:24:52 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Adam Strohl <adams@digitalspark.net>, Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <3857B2C4.3CA62441@newsguy.com> References: <51308.945234648@zippy.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > VESA syscons, either using libvgl and an array of crude widgets or > something like MGR and its widget set, has long been on the wish-list > but I didn't even include it in my summary since it's still very much > a pipe-dream. :-) There's actually one mode you forgot, which is Since no one seems to have spoken of it yet... GGI! GGI! I bet their X server is far smaller than XFree's, and we don't even _have_ to usa an X server. > what I call "text mode", and that's straight ascii prompts, no CUI-style > dialog boxes or anything. Think about text-to-speach devices for > the blind or serial consoles attached to really *dumb* terminals. :-) Sounds like CLI. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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