> > 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.
As far as I understand, even JAVA-enabled kernel still needs jdk to be
installed (see JAVA-Linux HOWTO) and this is not acceptable for
installaton disk I guess.
Alex Y.
>
> 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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