Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:14:44 -0700 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net> To: Woody Carey <wcarey@cs.uoregon.edu> Cc: Stefanos Kiakas <stefanos@ringworld.uniscape.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promoting FreeBSD. Message-ID: <353666B4.4EB212B9@ibm.net> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980416114137.10114E-100000@basix.cs.uoregon.edu>
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Woody Carey wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Stefanos Kiakas wrote: > gui sysadmin tools are a nice thing, for sure, though, for newbies and > more experience users alike. > I think a better first pass is to give users a ready-to-run out-of-the-box configuration with X-Windows set up for 640x480, and Mozilla, and Apache. Eivind Eklund gave me some hints towards doing this as a setup option during the install. GUI administration cuts to the heart of what BSD is all about, which is that everything is a text file, and any command can pipe to any other. It's better to provide a tutorial to Tcl/Tk/expect and show them how they can roll their own admin tools. If we try to be micros**t-like we will inevitably be compared to them, and they've got more cheap programmers and more PR money (!). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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