From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 29 15:05:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11883 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 15:05:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11850 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 15:05:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA12964; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:04:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA12754; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:04:22 -0700 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:04:22 -0700 Message-Id: <199801292304.QAA12754@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Karl Pielorz , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs US. :-)) In-Reply-To: <15062.886107413@time.cdrom.com> References: <34D0E8F9.CCE51F59@tdx.co.uk> <15062.886107413@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid 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? Java does dynamic extension loading on the fly quite well, even better than TCL since you can extend the loader to do it however you want. Our product uses that feature extensively. :) Nate