Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:34:24 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> Cc: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <19991215193424.C447@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <19991214174432.Y868@holly.calldei.com>; from chris@calldei.com on Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 05:44:32PM -0600 References: <2177.945155945@zippy.cdrom.com> <3855F364.E66EC87B@cvzoom.net> <99Dec15.073843est.40325@border.alcanet.com.au> <19991215083352.B3500@internode.com.au> <19991215000600.C77327@yedi.iaf.nl> <19991214174432.Y868@holly.calldei.com>
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On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 05:44:32PM -0600, Chris Costello wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > This does, however, have all the risks of building yet another SMIT or
> > SAM. :-( Neither attempt at making Unix sysadm 'user-friendly' makes
> > me want to cheer.
>
> What do you want in making Unix quick to administer? Seems to
> me that's the real goal of those things. Click click click done,
> you know.
Click-click, hosed up beyond repair. What I mean to say is that
GUI != easy to administer. M$ has plenty of examples available.
The really hard part is to design something that really appeals to
the (general) sense of what is a logic. Assuming there is an universal
logic to sysadmin-ing.
I happen to really like the current installer. OK, it has some rough edges
maybe and as I understand the inner workings are labeled 'There be dragons
here' but from the outside it is not too bad. What's more, total newbies
to FreeBSD can learn to work with it pretty easily.
W/
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