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Date:      Sun, 30 May 1999 14:18:54 -0700
From:      Jake Burkholder <jake@checker.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel config script 
Message-ID:  <19990530211854.21353C9@io.checker.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 May 1999 12:16:46 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905301212530.27345-100000@shell18.ba.best.com> 

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> On Sun, 30 May 1999, Yaroslav Halchinsky wrote:
> 
> > Don't you find editing config file MUCH more easy thing than answering
> > series of dumb questins again and again?
> 
> *I* do, yes.  In fact, I hate any other way. But I've heard it as a
> about 10 times now from people currently using Linux.  And oddly enough, it 
> seems to be the one thing that causes people to not use FreeBSD (and these 
> were not exactly *nix newbies).  

Yeah, we get this alot on IRC.  Linux people seem to need it.

Another idea, (just an idea, I don't know enough to volunteer)
would be to take the output of dmesg from the generic kernel, and
make a config file from that, which would just have the drivers
that were found.
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