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> > Dunno...I'm skeptical of GUIs for system configuration.  Just seems
> > that there's no way they could ever be flexible enough to handle everyting.
>   Thay must be extensability.
> > 
> 
> In principle, GUI tools is not such bad, it can be usefull.

GUI tools are good for most things, except for very low-level stuff or
doing evil tweaky things to configurations. :)

However, I like GUIs because it makes the *end user* feel more comfortable
configuring something. Sysadmins and clued people of a similar nature are
the edit-config-file-type, however I thought FreeBSD was also aimed at the
average joe running Windows :)

Adrian