my thoughts on FreeBSD

[kitsune]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 05:00:15 +0200 (EET)
Narvi <narvi at haldjas.folklore.ee> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Scott I. Remick wrote:
> 
> >
> > --- Matt Jarjoura <matt at tasonline.com> wrote:
> >
> > > A) RedHat and SUSE both have GUI installers.  -- Honestly, how
> > > important is it that FreeBSD remain a TUI-only menu based
> > > installation-??  Sure it's simple, but screen-shots of it sure
> > > don't appear appetizing to ISPs in a 2 week window.
> >
> > Actually, it's important for 3 reasons:
> >
> > 1) Compatibility. You can't even depend on 640x480 working on
> > every piece of hardware you might wish to install FreeBSD on. Some
> > embedded applications can't do any graphics.
> >
> 
> this is not an argument against GUI installer, but simply keeping
> another way open.

Actually this is a arguement against using it as a defualt...

> > 2) Speed. I'm still rather green w/ FreeBSD compared to many, but
> > I can fly through the FreeBSD setup in just a few mins.
> >
> 
> you could teh same with a gui installer on anything - gui speed is
> really unliekly to be an issue.

Possibly...


If GUI is going to be on the defualt install disk it should come up as
giving an option of either gui or text...