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>
>  It _is_ easy. But having a nice graphical tool which draws a pretty table
> of
> GENERIC and NOTES together with useful information about the possible
> options
> and devices would be a handy thing to have IMHO.
> Let's make FreeBSD userfriendly :-)



I agree completely, hopefully we can make that happen. I imagine that the
people using a kernel management utility would probably have configured it
by hand before, but could benefit from a GUI in some way. Quick access to
information is a good benefit to any GUI.

Justin Muniz