From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 23 16:01:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8024E16A41C for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:01:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DD2543D1D for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:01:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id r35so338788rna for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:01:55 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:organization:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; b=BIzsiL7yVlZzU3f4gyC/CrEo0A6bzhrYGB1owBMs/bdVnDGPRSkxL3y5ggmcMXUu9HIHibZQoxYBllIyhCPH3pT8rVHAv6yjN4Bw72EzHfrBWinKkr0EatZo2Yljn7uHvP/GLa6njV7bu23d11G0Dr+Cp3mjx6fdyPCSh22EPTk= Received: by 10.38.24.51 with SMTP id 51mr903215rnx; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?59.93.163.152? ([59.93.163.152]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 75sm1374428rnb.2005.06.23.09.01.53; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42BADCD4.2030600@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:31:24 +0530 From: Subhro Organization: Indian Institute of Information Technology User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Gonzalez References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------030200000705070607030100" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re Custom kernel config questions linux user X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:01:56 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030200000705070607030100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 6/23/2005 20:24, Daniel Gonzalez wrote: >Hello, >I was wondering if anyone could provide me an answer to the >following questions. Please keep in mind that by default I learned Unix >on a Linux system, so... please no flames :(. > > Flames??!! What for? Buddy we have better work to do than say "My OS superior than yours":-) Both Linux and *BSD are great OS. > 1) Is there any sort of configuration interface (ncurses, X, etc), >or am I 'stuck' with 'manually configuring' a textfile? > > Configuration for what? Some applications do have some kind of GUI (ncurses maybe) interface. But text files work everywhere. Also more convenient when you are on a low bandwidth remote terminal. >FreeBSD system. Check out SWAT or >I think there may be something called Webmin? > > Yeh Webmin is a tool. But you need lots of things to work right (for example, apache, a few libraries) to ensure that you can even start up webmin. > 2) Is there a complete list of features which can be enabled for the >kernel, other what was in the GENERIC configuration file? > > Of course. Refer to the NOTES (LINT in 4.* family). Thanks S. --------------030200000705070607030100--