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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!news.gun.de!wup-gate.wup.de!andreas From: andreas@wup.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD... Date: 17 Aug 1995 10:06:54 GMT Organization: Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH, D-40789 Monheim Lines: 20 Message-ID: <40v4bu$mdc@wup-gate.wup.de> References: <3uktse$d9c@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at> <3vj7he$aca@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <3vkh3r$e2v@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <40gf8q$ddv@hamlet.m-u-b.de> <40j1od$ir9@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunny.wup.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote: : In article <40gf8q$ddv@hamlet.m-u-b.de>, Toni Mueller <support@m-u-b.de> wrote: : >I don't mind having these, but the system must remain completely configurable : >with no more than /bin/vi, IMHO (and cc and such, for that matter). : > : >I think it's a _really bad idea_ to throw these out and require running a GUI : >to configure the system. : I'm sorry if it was ever implied that we would. Don't forget, we also : intend to have this beast install/configure easily from a _serial console_, : so we're not going to go so hog-wild with GUI front-ends that this becomes : impossible. We'd only be shooting our own goals in the feet. Supposing, that only an experienced person will do a serial console installation I think it would be smarter to concentrate efforts to people, who are installing from a PC Console. -- andreas@wup.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix -