Re: Drawing graphics on terminal
From: Roman Neuhauser (neuhauser_at_bellavista.cz)
Date: 06/29/03
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Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 23:53:38 +0200 To: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk>
# paul@iconoplex.co.uk / 2003-06-18 11:01:25 +0100:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:18:52PM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> > Some of this could be done in the current installer, if there wasn't
> > an effort to make it still fit on a floppy. Mind you, I'd like to see
> > the floppy based install stick around for a while, but I think FreeBSD
> > needs to embrace the CD reality.
> - A graphic installer would be nice though, because novice users need a bit
> of cuddling in those first few scary hours when new to the OS.
This would (and I viewed it this way when I started playing with OS
OSes) be plain lying. Pretty splash screen, and then what? A command
line? Pfff. I don't need a mascot winking at me from behind the
edges of the screen, I want an OS that's as fast as it gets. STABLE
on a P166/32MB RAM is faster than Mandrake 9.1 on a 400MHz Celeron
with 128MB RAM. I don't want FreeBSD to become another Mandrake.
Actually, I still remember installing FreeBSD for the first time (it
was 3.something, and I didn't return back till 4.0 or something when
I was actually determined to trying it out). I was scared, but I got
it to install. Sysinstall is not that bad if you follow the signs,
and quite managable if you don't.
YaST and whatever RedHat calls their installer amounted to a damn
lie to me. They promised things the running system didn't deliver,
and I felt cheated. If you *really* want to make FreeBSD more user
friendly, take a look at these man pages, and translate them into
English: disklabel(8), fdisk(8), newfs(8). Or mount_ntfs(8): what
the heck is a "nonresident file"?
The installer is just an eyecandy, and not seen very often.
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