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Survey of existing graphical installers
This page aims to list and describe some existing graphical installers for unix-like operating systems, in order to present existing solutions from which good ideas can be used in the [“finstall”] project.
PC-BSD installer
A FreeBSD installer aimed mostly for desktop users. [http://docs.pcbsd.org/guide/chap2.3.html Screenshot gallery]
Pros:
- Nice user interface
- Has partitioning
- Has simple RAID setup
- simple firewall setup (pf)
- I18N capable
- Installs a complete (KDE) desktop, not only base system
Cons:
- Apparently lacks advanced / server-like options
Architecture:
- KDE-based (?)
- C++, QT
- Monolithic (GUI is the install engine)
- No internal scripting
License: BSD