Re: Apropos Removal of sysinstall

On 29. Dec 2011, at 07:10 , Peter J. Cherny wrote:

> I believe removal of sysinstall exposes the community's blindness to a major parts of it's future, ZFS root.

Oh if it was for ZFS root only..  package management is gone in 10 with that as well but
there is work in progress for the new system so it'll be back and hopefully be just awesome:)


> Sadly the lack of xen already often forces me to run FreeBSD VMs under Debian.

Xen is being worked on as well even dom0.   bhyve is coming along as well. ...
There's plenty of virtualization if not jails ongoing or wrapping up.


A good start to get an idea if the latest ponderings/wishlist of developers and
devsummit attendees can be found here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD10
Some of these things have happened already and some even made it into the
upcoming 9.0 and should be crossed off.

/bz

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