From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 11 07:02:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA13415 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 07:02:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from att.com (kcgw1.att.com [192.128.133.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA13408 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 07:02:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sbabkin@dcn.att.com) From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Received: by kcgw1.att.com; Mon May 11 09:02 CDT 1998 Received: from dcn71.dcn.att.com ([135.44.192.112]) by kcig1.att.att.com (AT&T/GW-1.0) with ESMTP id JAA02083 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 09:02:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: by dcn71.dcn.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Mon, 11 May 1998 10:02:13 -0400 Message-ID: To: mike@smith.net.au, nate@mt.sri.com Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, archie@whistle.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:02:10 -0400 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ---------- > From: Nate Williams[SMTP:nate@mt.sri.com] > > > Ah, so "easier" means "easier for me". I think you'll find that > most > > people consider an interactive configuration process a lot "easier" > > than having to install and build the kernel sources. > > Actually no. Most people are annoyed at the Linux 'interactive' > process > once they use the FreeBSD process. > I would say that having configuration files is more convenient if you have experience with them, or to modify them by scripts. The menus are more convenient for peoples new to the BSD environment. Personally I hate the menu-based configuration in Linux. But I think that the wrong thing about it is not the idea but the implementation. It is just a very bad designed user interface with lots of short menus nested to crazy levels. -Serge To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message