Re: why BSDs got no love
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:58:46 -0800 Randi Harper ra...@freebsd.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Peer Schaefer peer.schae...@hamburg.de wrote: BTW, the Debian installer consists (a) of a modular, frontend agnostic backend, and (b) different frontend plugins, e.g. a curses-frontend or a X/GTK+-frontend. This is a modular and very elegant approach (but surely difficult to implement). Perhaps the way to go is a common table of target defaults eg /usr/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/install.cfg Which could then be edited by all of Front end CLI (*) Front end curses GUI (*) (*) Maybe these 2 alternatives should be the first question the installer asks ? Front end X11 GUI (for later after main install complete - Shudder, Not that I'd use it, but someone would probably want to write one). vi - for editing, writing back to new boot media, to auto install on multiple identical new machines. I would sooner stab myself in the face. Editing disks in vi is fun apparently! :) All of 4.11, 7.1 8.0 man sysinstall contain: This product is currently at the end of its life cycle and will eventually be replaced. Sure, once someone writes something everyone can agree upon. Until then, sorry, you're stuck with sysinstall. :) What happened to the BSD installer? And finstall ... Ivan? Ivan *knock knock* ;) -- Tom Rhodes ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: The sorry state of open source today
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:39:16 -0400 (EDT) Radu-Cristian FOTESCU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Really, folks, what makes you so aggressive?! I was hurt, and disappointed. I was having higher expectations from the FreeBSD guys. http://beranger.org/index.php?article=2858 R-C I wouldn't take DES' comments to be that aggressive or take much offense to them. After reading over some of the emails and his comments, in most cases it seemed more that he was pointing out that the Foundation isn't in control of the FreeBSD Project. This is true. There is, of course, a chance I missed a comment that was offensive. And if so, I'm sorry that it was missed; however, you need to understand that you acted like a reporter. You placed yourself in a position as a public figure and in a situation where people might disagree with what you had to say. Not everyone will like it. Not everyone will agree with you. It's true that the negative attention will of course be noticed much quicker and easier than the positive - that's just life. Furthermore, not to further offend you, I read the name of your article: The sorry state of open source today as more anti-open source comments from Microsoft drones and was a little unhappy until DES pointed out what it really was. Just take the good with the bad and just move on, you should have expected a mix of positive and negative reactions. Thanks, -- Tom Rhodes ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
