[nycbug-talk] current FreeBSD Advocacy thread
Marc Spitzer
mspitze1
Tue Mar 9 00:28:44 EST 2004
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 20:42:00 -0500
Jesse Callaway <jesse at theholymountain.com> wrote:
> I'd like to see installers being released just like any other app.
> Your stuck with the default FreeBSD installer if you want the very
> latest OS. But +1-2 days you could have all of your favorite
> installers ported to it.
NNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Word processors went through this in the 90's and it
was a real bad idea. Or another way to look at it is installing linux,
which one? Suse, Redhat, Debian all have different installers. What I
would like to see is the *BSD's do is settle on 1 installer. Yes you
might need to read 10 pages, ok 3 pages and pictures, to understand the
process but is that really such a big deal? And think of how simple
support is. I think the brain dead installer is the wrong optimization,
after all your only clueless when you start for +99% of the time you
know the basics. We should try to cure the clueless not cater to them.
marc
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