John Sconiers wrote: >Adding less then a meg here or there is not bloat. > It is a mistake to assume that memory is cheap and always easily available and/or upgradable. There are quite a lot of embedded systems out there, that run FreeBSD out-of-the-box, without the need to tweak or manually remove all that unnecessary eye candy. Such systems come with RAM soldered on-board, so they are impossible to upgrade. If you really want a GUIfied installer (and please remember that some hardware like Soekris boxes don't even have VGA circuitery!), then please only as a port (that would create a custom boot image), or as an optional add-on. The default install should still be possible over serial line and on striped down hardware. The same holds true for boot banners: not every hardware out there has hires graphics capabilities. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/Received on Fri Apr 29 2005 - 18:55:52 UTC
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