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Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 09:47:02 +0100
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: khansen@njcc.com, "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
Cc: hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool.
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In-Reply-To: <34F43E86.4770@njcc.com>; from Ken Hansen on Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 10:53:42AM -0500
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On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 10:53:42AM -0500, Ken Hansen wrote:
> Ron G. Minnich wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Adam Turoff wrote:
> > > Ken Hansen <khansen@njcc.com> writes:
> > > > Is it REALLY that hard to come up with a keyboard & monitor?
> > > For a regular box, no.  For a toaster, possibly.
> > 
> > we have a 128-node cluster here at sarnoff. no keyboards, no monitors, no
> > display cards. Needless to say, keyboard-less admin protocols look like a
> > good idea from here :-)
> 
> Granted, ther are special applications, but for a stand-alone, set &
> forget
> machine, I don't think my previous statement is TOO far off the mark 
> ("Is it REALLY that hard...") - but I suspect that a 128-node cluster is
> (for now) a rare configuration...

I'd suspect the keyboard/montitor-less configuration is much more important
in the set of people that contribute to FreeBSD than in the average case. 
The question is if we want to lock out the people that _do_ contribute code.

Eivind.

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