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Date:      Thu, 1 Jan 2015 18:11:02 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
Cc:        Ryan Kois <ryan.kois@gmail.com>, hackers@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org, Claudia Yadathi <yadathi@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: How to make a FreeBSD vm in virtualbox.
Message-ID:  <7CF09D63-7784-45ED-AECD-CC4A9A79465A@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1501011013050.674@laptop>
References:  <13C55A7B-4010-40FA-901B-DF8ED6BADD87@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412311936480.750@laptop> <54A44974.5080909@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1501011013050.674@laptop>

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On Jan 1, 2015, at 1:14 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

>> I know that.
>>=20
>> You know that.
>>=20
>> Do non-freebsd people know that?
>=20
> so add this in VM image to be ready.
>=20
> anyway - is this a right direction for unix system to do everything =
for a user (or more precisely - sysadmin) without even knowing?

Maybe it is!  But I'm not sure dhcp is exactly the slippery slope that =
this statement would suggest it is. ;)

>=20
> Is FreeBSD heading to compete with GUI linux distros?
>=20
>=20

I'm not sure how auto configuring interfaces, particularly in the case =
of VMs distributed) leads to a GUI discussion, but in fact we already =
do.  Have you tried PCBSD?

The end goal of this is that anyone can grab a freebsd install and have =
it be useful and do work with it without having to know a whole lot =
about it. =20


-Alfred=



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