From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 29 12:57:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18850 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:57:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18823 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:56:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA15065; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:56:53 -0800 (PST) To: Karl Pielorz cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs US. :-)) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:39:21 GMT." <34D0E8F9.CCE51F59@tdx.co.uk> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:56:53 -0800 Message-ID: <15062.886107413@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" > Just to add fuel to the fire - I like my 'admind' idea (then again I would) - > I did like the idea of a Win32 (i.e. 95 / NT ) front end, but I'm starting to > go off it a bit in favour of 'Java' (OK, I know, don't hit me too hard) - as > it will look 'similar', but be runnable on Unix itself (which is probably a > big plus ;-) and hopefully someday we'll have a nice FreeBSD setup that boots > off a CD straight into a VGA x-server with Netscape running, and off you go ( And how do you intend to dynamically extend the client in this scenario? The server will upload java code on demand, or what exactly? That sort of thing sure is a lot easier with TCL. ;) Jordan