----- Forwarded message from [email protected] ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Message-Id: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 12:08:50 +0100 Subject: FreeBSD Configuration
Hi, I currently run FreeBSD 3.1 at home, and recently recommended it to a few friends at work as my preference for a non-commercial flavour of UNIX. This opened up an avenue for development that I would like to volunteer to make happen - configuration tools. Being Windows people, they found FreeBSD intimidating - configuring a sound card, adding a new device, or setting up userPPP were things they were used to having done for them. These people now run Linux, as they fell into the "UNIX is too difficult for me" trap, and liked the comfort of easy configuration. Your documentation is great, but some people need to be started more slowly. Even after following your documentation, a user may not think of creating a symlink /dev/modem to their device node (which is needed, for example, by Minicom). I like the idea of easy configuration as an /option/ to those who would like it - particularly newcomers to UNIX. With this in mind, I searched my install set for such utilities but couldn't find them, nor see them on the wanted projects list. Would you be interested in such tools being developed for FreeBSD, and could I organise such a development team? I don't want to duplicate somebody else's work, so please point me in the right direction if such work has been undertaken. Your comments on this subject wold be appreciated, but please reply to < [email protected] >, as the return address for this mail is my workplace. Regards, Johnathan Meehan [email protected] ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Wolfram Schneider <[email protected]> http://wolfram.schneider.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
