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On Apr 24, 2013, at 5:43 AM, Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> wrote:

> It _is_ easy. But having a nice graphical tool which draws a pretty =
table of
> GENERIC and NOTES together with useful information about the possible =
options
> and devices would be a handy thing to have IMHO.
> Let's make FreeBSD userfriendly :-)


Side note: I agree that we would really, really like FreeBSD more user =
friendly. =20

However, is kernel configuration where we really want to start?  Just =
how much of the user base reconfigures their kernels, anyway?  Wouldn't =
effort be better spent on making normal installation, maintenance and =
deployment clean and easy?

Regards,
Tony