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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:04:22 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs US. :-)) 
Message-ID:  <199801292304.QAA12754@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <15062.886107413@time.cdrom.com>
References:  <34D0E8F9.CCE51F59@tdx.co.uk> <15062.886107413@time.cdrom.com>

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> > 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



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