From owner-freebsd-config Thu Jan 30 01:22:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA00206 for config-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 01:22:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA00196 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 01:22:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 28720 on Thu, 30 Jan 1997 10:13:53 +0100; id KAA28720 efrom: marc@nietzsche.bowtie.nl; eto: UNKNOWN Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nietzsche.bowtie.nl (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA19558; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 10:19:15 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199701300919.KAA19558@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: "Sean J. Schluntz" , config@freebsd.org, imp@village.org, Marc van Kempen Subject: Re: Commerical applications In-reply-to: jkh's message of Wed, 29 Jan 1997 13:32:31 -0800. <1831.854573551@time.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 10:19:15 +0100 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-freebsd-config@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > True, but after many months of work you would have an amazing install > > interfact that _could_ (if done well) blow away any other system. You could > > make it one of the new nifty things in 3.0-R. > > I can think of at least a hundred things which fit that description. > Now I just need to have myself cloned a dozen or so times. :-) > > I think we'll probably end up going the HTML route if only because > there are a lot more CGI hackers around than there are > amazing-install-interface hackers. > Could we please take a vote (or whatever it takes) to decide which route to take. If it's going to be HTML let's announce it so that we can focus this discussion and (finally, I've been following these discussions too for the last year and a half), get something done, or at least have a direction in which to go (I feel lost :). Marc. PS no snipe intended to anyone at all! ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ----------------------------------------------------