From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 3 01:00:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA03681 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 01:00:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA03672 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 01:00:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA08237; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 00:58:53 -0800 (PST) To: rssh@grad.kiev.ua cc: Alex Belits , Amancio Hasty , Eivind Eklund , khansen@njcc.com, "Ron G. Minnich" , hackers Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Mar 1998 10:36:04 +0200." <34FBC0F1.74A067A6@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 00:58:53 -0800 Message-ID: <8233.888915533@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Interesting, that after posting info about alpha-version of my GUI > config tool,I receive only one feedback from wich, who actually test > it. Well, I did actually test it myself when you first announced it but, to be perfectly honest, there were so few actual configuration screens currently implemented that I thought "hmmmm, nice idea but not enough here to see whether it's going to work out in actual practice or not so I will come back and look at it when there is more here." Perhaps that was unfair, but I think that's probably an accurate summation of how most folks will look at it. For what it's worth the same thing happened to "FreEasy" from our friends in Holland. It was complete enough to make some folks think "hmm, interesting!" but not complete enough to get folks raving about it loudly enough to get everyone else to jump in and look at it. In order to really catch the public attention with a configuration tool, you need to be able to configure enough stuff to be useful to the "working system administrator" in his daily job. That seems to be the case with all the other successful tools I've seen, anyway, and whether that's a nice situation or not it's also the way things simply are. :-( Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message