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Date:      Mon, 16 Jun 1997 13:40:34 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu, molter@logic.it, adrian@obiwan.psinet.net.au, vas@vas.tomsk.su, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: To UNIX or not to UNIX ;-). Was: PPP problems.
Message-ID:  <199706161140.NAA04801@bitbox.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: Michael Smith's message of Mon, 16 Jun 1997 10:25:43 %2B0930 (CST)
References:  <8841.866419524@time.cdrom.com> <199706160055.KAA08401@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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> 
> Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > This is all well and good, and we've been here before several times
> > over the years, but who is going to do the work?  Who is going to
> > write all this nifty GUI stuff which takes over the job done by all of
> > Windows' nifty GUI stuff for installing and configuring the system?
> > 
> > You? :-)
> 
> Me, with any luck.  Last exam for this semester today.  Yay!  Now, if
> anyone wants to fund me for this exercise... 8)

Want: yes.  Can: no.  Not right now, anyway :-(

> Note I have received a total of 0 (zzero) responses to my most recent
> posting to the -config mailing list regarding the architectural
> prototype for the server side of the configuration framework.  Am I
> supposed to take this as a sign of encouragement?  

Possibly, yes.  That at least means nobody has any objections :)

(I'll try to look it over; I haven't read that list because I don't
have a personal interest in the technical sides of configuration, just
in having configuration-tools available for FreeBSD that let me avoid
Windows...)

Eivind.




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