From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 23 8:43:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF54037B57C for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:43:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustidentd@obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA12407; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:43:27 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <38DA4A05.7E4E1F71@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:44:53 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Michael Lucas , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New article References: <200003221731.MAA20664@blackhelicopters.org> <38D977A2.3A64317A@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > Michael Lucas wrote: > > > > Well, the kernel article just hit LinuxWorld > > > > http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-03/lw-03-freebsd.html > > > > Thanks to all who commented/proofread this! > > There are some errors, though... :-) > > You say "make depend all install" once, which is incorrect. > > The claim about complexity of a kernel configuration tool is also > completely groundless. There isn't a kernel configuration tool for > FreeBSD because no one can be bothered to produce one, and that's that. > There is no technical obstacles to it. There *IS* a graphical kernel configuration utility for FreeBSD. It's called Emacs. Perhaps someone who really groks elisp could make us a kernel-conf mode? > Alas, we have been evolving to allow mostly dispensing with a kernel > configuration file altogether. A sensible approach. > capo@zurichgnomes.bsdconspiracy.net ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message