Thanks for the observation. There is an RFE on this. And I think, caiman project (new installer) is going to have a new list.
-Narendra On 7/2/07, Garrett D'Amore <Garrett.Damore at sun.com> wrote: > > Perhaps this has already been asked, but something that has been bugging > me for a while is the list of terminal types prompted for during > installation in text mode (yes, some of us _do_ still use text mode > installs... in particular when using a headless system... :-) > > Here's the list as of b67: > > 1) ANSI Standard CRT > 2) DEC VT52 > 3) DEC VT100 > 4) Heathkit 19 > 5) Lear Siegler ADM31 > 6) PC Console > 7) Sun Command Tool > 8) Sun Workstation > 9) Televideo 910 > 10) Televideo 925 > 11) Wyse Model 50 > 12) X Terminal Emulator (xterms) > 13) CDE Terminal Emulator (dtterm) > 14) Other > > > > Now, it occurs to me a few things: > > Items 2, 4, 5, 9 10, and 11 are so ancient that I'd be very surprised if > anyone still used these with Solaris anymore. (Some of these terminals > are over 25 years old!) Yes, a couple of people may have emulations > still around, but the reality is that probably nearly everyone who uses > emulation can at least get by with vt100, and probably even ansi. > (vt100 emulations are still so prevalent that it doesn't make sense to > remove that one, IMO.) > > Its not entirely clear to me that #7 is still needed... we haven't > shipped that (it was part of OpenWindows!) since Solaris 2.6, afaik. > > I'd really like to see Xterm color added (xtermc) and there are probably > others who'd like to see gnome-terminal added. > > Its possible that some of this can be consolidated. dtterm can probably > be covered by ansi, for example. I'm not sure why the PC console is > required these days. > > I guess a simplified view might look like: > > 1) ANSI Standard CRT (also CDE Terminal Emulator, dtterm) > 2) DEC VT 100 > 2) Sun Workstation > 3) X Terminal Emulator (xterm) > 4) X Terminal Emulator with Color (xtermc) > 5) Other > > Much simpler to choose from, I think. :-) Just food for thought. > > -- Garrett > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > -- Warm Regards, Narendra Visit my blogs at: http://ssnarendrakumar.blogspot.com/ http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ssnkumar ___ ___ __ _ / __/ / __/ / | / / _\ \ _ \ \ / /| |/ / \___/ \___/ /_/ |__/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20070702/29d64e57/attachment.html>
