Re: sysinstall colours

[Michiel Overtoom]

On Friday 16 October 2009, Randi Harper wrote:

 Personally if I spent a lot of time on such a project, I'd be sure to have
 the is this going to make it into freebsd base? conversation first.

I think there's no doubt about it that 'sysinstall' will feature in the next 
FreeBSD too.  It will!  Keep up the good work!  It's worth it.

The sysinstall manual page makes two apocalyptical remarks about itself:

1. This product is currently at the end of its life cycle and will eventually 
be replaced.

2. This utility is a prototype which lasted several years past its expiration 
date and is greatly in need of death.

These doomsayings are wrong. To date no serious contenders have surfaced and 
up until that time sysinstall does its job, underappreciated perhaps, but it 
does it reasonably well, and adequately.  Now that it is back in the focus, 
we can look to a bright, evolutionary future for sysinstall.


alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote:

 personally if i spent a lot of time on such a project i'd be expecting it
 to get integrated into the base system. if not i'd get rather upset and
 would probably switch to linux or opensolaris.

I wouldn't switch operating systems just because something in the installer 
bugged me.  Some enhancements I made to OSS and were rejected by the 
maintainers also didn't make me abandon that software.


Greetings, 

Michiel Overtoom,
Software developer.


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Re: KDE3 -- KDE4

[Michiel Overtoom]

On Friday 07 August 2009 16:12:03 Andrew Gould wrote:

 Is there an increase in usability/benefit to match the increase in
 resource consumption?

As I see it, KDE4 fell in the Vista trap.  I tried KDE4 and was showered with 
eye candy effects, some of which couldn't even be disabled.  Also, quite a 
few features I used in KDE3 were missing from KDE4.

I never understood the need for transparent windows.  If you're working in a 
window you want to concentrate on its contents, not on stuff that's happening 
beneath it.  It breaks the flow.  I think it's indicative of the 
ritalin-generation of teens who can't concentrate for two minutes and need to 
constantly tweet about nonsense.  Geez, I'm getting old ;-)

In my time, we didn't have color screens.  We had machine code on the bare 
metal, and a USER PORT to hook up your hardware.

Greetings, 

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the Internet is simply amazing. - Vinod Valloppillil 
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