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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD... Date: 12 Aug 1995 20:08:45 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 13 Message-ID: <40j1od$ir9@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3uktse$d9c@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at> <3vj7he$aca@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <3vkh3r$e2v@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <40gf8q$ddv@hamlet.m-u-b.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <40gf8q$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. Jordan