From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 22 11:29: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD3137B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 11:29:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D0CB43EEA for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 11:28:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <20021222192853002000d8joe>; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:28:53 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gBMJSMk7038563; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 11:28:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id gBMJSGlw038560; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 11:28:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects References: <20021221231417.GB32071@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <001101c2a948$2034b5e0$c601a8c0@silverdollar> <20021222034806.GA34537@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <000c01c2a98e$fcd590a0$c601a8c0@silverdollar> <20021222174108.GD16833@gothmog.gr> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 22 Dec 2002 11:28:15 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20021222174108.GD16833@gothmog.gr> Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Giorgos Keramidas writes: > That's nice indeed. I like the way that the kernel is configured in > the BSD world a whole lot better. I find it a lot easier to edit a > simple text file, comment this here, uncomment that elsewhere, than > the `Linux wway' which seems to involve a lot of struggling with menu > options (at least, the last time I checked). It's been two years now, but I'm fairly sure that you may hand edit a Linux kernel config file if you want to. The config programs just create the config file from scratch in a user-friendly (not!) manner. One thing Linux does have over FreeBSD in this regard is MUCH better documentation of the config items, either from the GUI's "help" or by just reading the text file the GUI reads its help from. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message