freebsd-advocacy Digest, Vol 304, Issue 5
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: why BSDs got no love (Astrodog)
2. Re: why BSDs got no love (Petrus)
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Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:24:25 -0600
From: Astrodog <astr...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: why BSDs got no love
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I think what we're looking at here is that sysinstall should probably
be replaced... but it works well enough that it doesn't *have* to be
replaced, and most people aren't bothered enough by it to write code
to come up with something new. Certainly, having things like zfs
support in sysinstall would be nice... but most of the people using
zfs boot know the system well enough to do it from the Fixit/LiveFS
shell anyway.
Basically... if you really want to see this change, I think you're
gonna have to do it yourself.
--- Harrison
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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:43:35 +1000
From: "Petrus" <pet...@tpg.com.au>
Subject: Re: why BSDs got no love
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>I think what we're looking at here is that sysinstall should probably
> be replaced... but it works well enough that it doesn't *have* to be
The virtue of sysinstall, however, is that it is console based. I for one
would rather endure sysinstall's idiosyncracies, if it still means that I'm
going to be able to reliably install on whatever ancient, eldritch hardware
I happen to have with me at the time.
If someone wants to write something X based, with hardware detection a la
Ubuntu, and all the proverbial bells and whistles and flashing lights, then
by all means; (and I think they already have, with finstall) but I think
FreeBSD absolutely needs to keep a console-based installer as a fallback for
old hardware.
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