From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 30 21:20:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6720B14D08 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 21:20:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA13054 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 22:20:29 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <37520E0C.BFC19970@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 22:20:28 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel config script References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Spike wrote: > > I think that in ten years, Linux will be going strong and FreeBSD > will have whithered. I don't think this is because FreeBSD is > technically flawed, or that the core team and developers aren't doing > a good enough job. I think this because in the end FreeBSD is going to > lose to Linux if only from the sheer momentum of twenty million rabid > Linux fanatics. And realistically, we aren't doing a damn thing about it. You're wrong, if for no other reason than because *I* will still be using FreeBSD. You, like so many others here, seem to think that FreeBSD is somehow in a competition with Linux for users. This is not so. As I have said before, let Linux teach them some of what UNIX is about, and the ones that are smart enough and interested enough to look further will find FreeBSD. The rest of them, we really don't need. If you want to write a kernel configuration program, write one. Writing it as a shell script is NOT going to satisfy the legions of clueless Linux users who are used to clicking their way through YET ANOTHER butt-ugly box full of buttons Linux luser program for configuration the kernel du jour, so be sure to plan how you're going to make an X application, too. My suggestion is learn a bit about Tck/Tk. Now, can we end this stupid bleating? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message