Re: First impressions on installing Debian 1.3 (and an idea!)
> I was thinking that perhaps this might be a
> decent Java application: you could write essentially the same code to
> run locally in your Java-enabled kernel, and those with web sites that
> mirror debian packages could use the same code (with a few modifications)
> to run in Netscape across the net and find/display package info, so that
> you could run the system ON the FTP site ...
> Don't know how excited the sysadmins would be tho.
>
> Will
>
I think this is a very good idea - imagine when Debian is ported to other
hardware platforms and (dreaming maybe) other OS's - one JAVA application
could handle the installation regardless of Hardware and OS.
The only Kernel that would *have* to have Java support compiled in would
be the one on the rescue disks. The system could install a different kernel
that would not have JAVA support.
What would *really* be nice would be a browser that had more capabilities
than Lynx - yet still worked on a tty. Maybe provide FRAME support via
a UI like that in QuarterDeck's (sp?) Manifest.
The user with bare-minimum hardware could use Lynx - the user with SVGALIB
support could use the new browser - someone with X could use Netscape or
any other X-based browser.
If all of the Debian Admin tools could be written in JAVA/CGI and put into
HTML pages, this scenario would be pretty cool!
Chuck
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