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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD...
Date: 1 Aug 1995 06:20:43 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <3vj7he$aca@nntp5.u.washington.edu>, William R. Somsky <somsky@dirac.phys.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>If GUI's, etc, _really_ do make things better, then OK,
>but please, _please_, **PLEASE**, don't add them just
>because they're "popular" or are "perceived" to be better.
>
> IF IT'S NOT **ACTUALLY** BETTER, DON'T DO IT!!!
Well, what say you to a GUI-based kernel configuration utility?
You will have the choice of an X-based Tk interface, a libdialog-
based one (like the current installer) or a Web/CGI-based one. Better
than editing config files by hand, no? I mention this because there
is work under way for such a beast. Subscribe to the freebsd-hackers
mailing list if you want in on this project.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org