About the BSD Installer
The BSD Installer is a lightweight system installation and configuration tool for *BSD operating systems, designed with tractability, ease-of-use, and robustness in mind.
By using the DFUI abstraction layer, the BSD Installer cleanly separates the user interface from the application logic, allowing for a greater range of possibilities for interface design and accessibility.
Development continues with improvements to its functionality, usability, and presentation, and work continues on integrating it with more BSD-based operating system distributions.
The latest backend is based on a combination of Lua and C which delivers an incredibly powerful installer solution.
Developers
- James Frazer - Many improvements in the overall design of the flow and user experience;
- Eirik Nygaard - libdiskng;
- Devon H. O'Dell - website, backend qsort and parsers;
- Hiten Pandya - Guidance;
- Chris Pressey - LibDFUI, Lua translations, Test & Installer Backend, ncurses frontend, CGI frontend, docs;
- Justin Sherrill - CGI Look and feel improvement via CSS and HTML;
- Scott Ullrich - LibDFUI, Lua translations, Test & Installer Backend, CGI frontend, docs, original FreeBSD/FreeSBIE/pfSense port;
- Shawn R. Walker - Qt Frontend, style(9) work, XHTML/CSS cleanups;
- Denis Peplin - initial NLS, Russian translations;
- Andrew Turner - Working hard to get BSDInstaller into the official FreeBSD tree
Testing / Bug Reporting
- Chen Zhao, Andrew Hacking, Jeroen Ketema - bug reports
- Matt Dillon - bug-hunting assistance
Hosting / Hardware
- Colocation provided by bluegrass.net
- Server hardware provided by Chris Buechler and Scott Ullrich
System Administration
- Chris Buechler - CVS and web server administrator
Installer Copyright
/* /* * Copyright (c)2004 The DragonFly Project. All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in * the documentation and/or other materials provided with the * distribution. * * Neither the name of the DragonFly Project nor the names of its * contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived * from this software without specific prior written permission. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS * ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT * LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE * COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, * INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES * (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR * SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, * STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) * ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED * OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. */ */
Vendor Copyrights
CGIC, copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Thomas Boutell and Boutell.Com, Inc.. Permission is granted to use CGIC in any application, commercial or noncommercial, at no cost. HOWEVER, this copyright paragraph must appear on a "credits" page accessible in the public online and offline documentation of the program. Modified versions of the CGIC library should not be distributed without the attachment of a clear statement regarding the author of the modifications, and this notice may in no case be removed. Modifications may also be submitted to the author for inclusion in the main CGIC distribution.