From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 4 13:05:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23377 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 13:05:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (root@[208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23362 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 13:05:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-90.camalott.com [208.229.74.90] (may be forged)) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA22267; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 15:04:16 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA03968; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 15:05:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 15:05:09 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199806042005.PAA03968@detlev.UUCP> To: tlambert@primenet.com CC: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, eivind@yes.no, tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199806041851.LAA03682@usr05.primenet.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Thu, 4 Jun 1998 18:51:51 +0000 (GMT)) Subject: Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS... From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199806041851.LAA03682@usr05.primenet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 2) The config program is a barrier for new users. > This isn't an opinion. It's a fact. People who have never used the > config program in FreeBSD are unlikely to have experience with a > similar program in the environment they came from, be it Linux or > be it Windows. I had no problem at all with the config program when I started with BSD. And FreeBSD has the handbook that spells it out easily. -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message