Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 08:54:35 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: dmaddox@scsn.net, kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net Cc: ben@narcissus.ml.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.7 and COMPAT_43 -Reply Message-ID: <199705151354.IAA03690@beowulf.utmb.edu>
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> > I tried to stop myself but I have to say it (as a new user). > > As far as I can tell, If someone cannot open 3 terminals, One for the > handbook, one for LINT, and one to cp GENERIC whatever and edit > whatever, I think a refer all to LINT or Handbook or man *(*) is > probably appropriate. I disagree that you have to change the OS for > new users, you have to change new users for the OS. > > The only idea that seemed possible in reading this (plus the other) > string was something like `vikernel' that could use an editor which > would use a configuration database that would check the configuration > for missing required `options' as well as typographical errors, a > spell checker of sorts, as part of the write command. > Now that is a really excellent idea! Some of us "traditionalists" (Boy, it feels good to be referred to like that!) don't mind change, we just don't want the changes to turn configuring *BSD (kernel and/or user environment) _into_ NT, with all its mind numbing restrictions and undocumented "features". We _like_ flexibility, even it it steepens the learning curve. I have FreeBSD boxes doing things Microsoft hasn't even dreamed about, much less put into NT. That said, vipw is a _dramatic_ improvement over bare editing of the password files. Something like that would be great, IMHO. (But implementing it is would be nontrivial, methinks, and likely version-specific, at least in the early incarnations, until the proper options to be dealt with are identified and abstracted.) Bud Dodson -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790
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