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Date:      02 Feb 2002 07:44:43 -0500
From:      "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To:        Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@TheWorld.com>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re:  Junior Annoying Hacker Task
Message-ID:  <1012653902.2867.3.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200202020842.DAA11096920@shell.TheWorld.com>
References:  <5F46C986-16DB-11D6-8CEC-00039359034A@mac.com>  <200202020842.DAA11096920@shell.TheWorld.com>

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On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 03:42, Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
> >The point of the program would be to edit the "FreeBSD
> >Registry", rc.conf, and make it look just like the Windows
> >Registry in the editor, using "_" as the implied path
> >component/terminal component (key) seperator.
> 
> *Very* bad idea.  OSes such as FreeBSD (or Unix in general,
> for that matter) should *not* be made-up to "look-like"
> something they're not, *especially* Windows.

Yes and no.  Blindly copying the \HKEY_* crap would be a seriously bad
idea... but a GUI tool for rc.conf and sysctl maintenance would, I
think, be a good thing.  Not everyone wants to be forced to become a
traditional Unix sysadmin, and "just run Windows and be done with it"
isn't always the answer.

(However, I fully agree that this doesn't belong on -stable.)

-- 
brandon s. allbery   [os/2][linux][solaris][japh]  allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator      [WAY too many hats]        allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering                                KF8NH
carnegie mellon university  ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls]


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