From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 4 10:15:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14240 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 10:15:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dinah.coastalnet.com (dinah.coastalnet.com [204.183.40.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14206 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 10:14:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryany@dinah.coastalnet.com) Received: (from ryany@localhost) by dinah.coastalnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02303; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 13:13:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ryany) Message-Id: <199901041813.NAA02303@dinah.coastalnet.com> Subject: Re: Kernel configurator In-Reply-To: from Kenneth Wayne Culver at "Jan 4, 1999 10:59:23 am" To: culverk@wam.umd.edu (Kenneth Wayne Culver) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 13:13:58 -0500 (EST) Cc: sue@welearn.com.au, npe@bfc.dk, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ryan Younce X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 03:37:30PM +0100, npe@bfc.dk wrote: > > > Would a thing like a kernel configurator with a user interface be > > > appreciated ? > > > Personally I think that it would be a great plus for new users.. . > > > > Well... why don't you ask them? The newbies who can read have a mailing > > list where they decide what would be best for -current users to try :-) > > > Unless I'm mistaken, don't the options USERCONFIG, and its visual > counterpart already implement a "Kernel Configurator??" It's my > understanding that they do. That was my understanding also. I think the original author might have meant a pre-compilation utility which spawns a TCL or Curses based configuration tool that gives a runthrough of all the options, similar to Linux's 'make xconfig' or 'make menuconfig' (assuming, of course, that they haven't changed it in the two-plus years since I quit using Linux). Ryan Younce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message