Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1995 15:42:56 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: root@io.cts.com (Morgan Davis), jkh@FreeBSD.org, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: sup: Ok, I'm gonna do it. Message-ID: <9197.791682176@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Feb 95 09:42:46 MST." <9502011642.AA06840@cs.weber.edu>
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> Would an all singing, all dancing administration tool, like SVR4 sysadm > or AIX's be a sufficient answer to this problem? It would certainly be a heck of a start. I've made a very rudimentary beginning on this with `dmenu', but something a lot more polished I certainly would not kick out of bed for eating crackers. > What it if was only available as a GUI tool? There would be some fuss, but since Jeremy has kindly offered Xaccel at VGA resolutions, we'd have most folks covered. > The installer is a special purpose program -- that is, its scope is > extremely limited. It does what it does extremely well. You might > liken it to a car that runs real well in one lane of a 20 lane > freeway. Reentering it is like trying to signal a lane change. I'd be even more blunt: Reentering it simply should not be allowed, with the installer leaving the system after installation. > Maybe what's needed is a tool writing pragmatist, willing to start > pulling administration sources from the comp.sources archives and > make them work. In a volunteer project, that person may be difficult > to find. Oh, I don't know.. The person I'm writing to seems very qualified! :-) Jordan
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