The case for FreeBSD
Greg Armer
greg at propdata.co.za
Tue Feb 8 08:58:11 GMT 2005
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 19:53 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-Feb-07 21:48:48 -0600, supraexpress at globaleyes.net wrote:
> > FreeBSD's
> >'DOS-like menu' system is a travisty and IS PROBABLY THE ONE THING THAT TURNS
> >OFF MORE PROSPECTIVE FBSD USERS THAN ANYTHING ELSE - I know - I have heard!
>
> An X-based GUI would be worse - the installer size would grow about 50
> times and the minimum RAM requirements would grow several times.
> Given FreeBSDs target (servers) it's important the the installer run
> over a serial port.
I have to agree here, and add there is nothing like installing an entire
server OS in 7 minutes.
>
> >I offer the following suggestions for cogitation and realize that some
> >of MY choices may not be "the best", but here goes anyhow:
>
> Unfortunately, your patches to implement this got lost in transit.
> Could you resend them please :-)
>
Greg
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