Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:20:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: dwilde1@ibm.net Cc: FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promoting FreeBSD. Message-ID: <19980417112002.J1090@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <353666B4.4EB212B9@ibm.net>; from Don Wilde on Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 01:14:44PM -0700 References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980416114137.10114E-100000@basix.cs.uoregon.edu> <353666B4.4EB212B9@ibm.net>
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On Thu, 16 April 1998 at 13:14:44 -0700, Don Wilde wrote: > Woody Carey wrote: >> >> On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Stefanos Kiakas wrote: > >> gui sysadmin tools are a nice thing, for sure, though, for newbies and >> more experience users alike. > > I think a better first pass is to give users a ready-to-run > out-of-the-box configuration with X-Windows set up for 640x480, and > Mozilla, and Apache. Eivind Eklund gave me some hints towards doing this > as a setup option during the install. GUI administration cuts to the > heart of what BSD is all about, which is that everything is a text file, > and any command can pipe to any other. It's better to provide a tutorial > to Tcl/Tk/expect and show them how they can roll their own admin tools. > If we try to be micros**t-like we will inevitably be compared to them, > and they've got more cheap programmers and more PR money (!). One of the many things in my to-do list is a port which installs a basic GUI (probably pretty much the one described in "The Complete FreeBSD", second edition. If anybody has any suggestions, please let me know. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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