From owner-freebsd-www Sun May 23 4: 9:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from NYGATE2.bankerstrust.com (nygate2.bankerstrust.com [206.231.84.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E78E414BDD for ; Sun, 23 May 1999 04:09:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnathan.f.meehan@bankerstrust.com) Received: (from mailer@localhost) by NYGATE2.bankerstrust.com (8.8.8/1.9) id HAA02343 for ; Sun, 23 May 1999 07:09:21 -0400 (EDT) From: johnathan.f.meehan@bankerstrust.com Received: from nybtmxp2.btco.com (nybtmxp2.btco.com [138.93.137.8]) by NYGATE2.bankerstrust.com (smap V2.0) with SMTP id xma001621; Sun, 23 May 99 07:09:14 -0400 Received: from NYSMTP4000.svc.btco.com by nybtmxp2.btco.com; Sun, 23 May 1999 07:09:13 -0400 Received: by NYSMTP4000.svc.btco.com(Lotus SMTP MTA Internal build v4.6.2 (651.2 6-10-1998)) id 8525677A.003D4456 ; Sun, 23 May 1999 07:09:11 -0400 X-Lotus-FromDomain: BANKERS_TRUST@HUB To: www@FreeBSD.org Message-Id: <8525677A.003D42AC.00@NYSMTP4000.svc.btco.com> Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 12:08:50 +0100 Subject: FreeBSD Configuration Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hi, I currently run FreeBSD 3.1 at home, and recently recommended it to a few friends at work as my preference for a non-commercial flavour of UNIX. This opened up an avenue for development that I would like to volunteer to make happen - configuration tools. Being Windows people, they found FreeBSD intimidating - configuring a sound card, adding a new device, or setting up userPPP were things they were used to having done for them. These people now run Linux, as they fell into the "UNIX is too difficult for me" trap, and liked the comfort of easy configuration. Your documentation is great, but some people need to be started more slowly. Even after following your documentation, a user may not think of creating a symlink /dev/modem to their device node (which is needed, for example, by Minicom). I like the idea of easy configuration as an /option/ to those who would like it - particularly newcomers to UNIX. With this in mind, I searched my install set for such utilities but couldn't find them, nor see them on the wanted projects list. Would you be interested in such tools being developed for FreeBSD, and could I organise such a development team? I don't want to duplicate somebody else's work, so please point me in the right direction if such work has been undertaken. Your comments on this subject wold be appreciated, but please reply to < jmeehan@easynet.co.uk >, as the return address for this mail is my workplace. Regards, Johnathan Meehan jmeehan@easynet.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message