Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 01:10:20 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: khansen@njcc.com, "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>, hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. Message-ID: <199803020910.BAA09297@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Mar 1998 09:47:02 %2B0100." <19980302094702.33670@follo.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
eivind@yes.no said: > 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. For a user friendly configuration tools we can forget about experts. Besides most of them are fully capable of deploying their own configuration tools. Well, at least I was able to for one of my contracts 8) We should start targetting newbies --- got a complaint from my ISP that he was starting to see people moving away from NT and asked about ease of FreeBSD . For evaluation purposes he has installed linux and FreeBSD. BTW: Now that the Java front is picking steam perhaps someone can start thinking about using Java for system or user configuration stuff. The latest version of the jdk can be run without X . Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199803020910.BAA09297>