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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:28:32 -0600
From:      Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To:        Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Eric Jones <ejon@colltech.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?
Message-ID:  <19991214172832.V868@holly.calldei.com>
In-Reply-To: <3855F364.E66EC87B@cvzoom.net>
References:  <2177.945155945@zippy.cdrom.com> <3855F364.E66EC87B@cvzoom.net>

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On Tue, Dec 14, 1999, Donn Miller wrote:
> Maybe we could call it "sysconfig", in honor of the old
> /etc/sysconfig file that was superceded bt /etc/rc.conf.

   That's not very creative!  I had "Trident" in mind.  Only
problem is that the name is used by a company that makes video
card chips and another company that makes chewing gum.

> I saw in CUBFM (the newsgroup) where a couple of people wanted to
> do a GUI menu-based interfaced to the kernel configuration (as
> opposed to editing a file by hand).  I don't think this would be
> too hard at all, but I wondered what the experienced FreeBSD
> users thought of this idea?

   Just me.  I'm not working with anyone on this.

-- 
|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
|No program done by a hacker will work unless he is on the system.
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