GSOC: Qt front-ends

[Freddie Cash]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Tony Li <tony.li at tony.li> wrote:

>
> On Apr 24, 2013, at 5:43 AM, Lars Engels <lars.engels at 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.
>
> 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?
>

Mostly off-topic for this thread, but improving the boot process to
auto-detect hardware and auto-load kernel modules would be really nice.
That way, GENERIC would be very small, with just the basic frameworks
required (CAM, USB, PCI, TCP/IP, etc), and all the actual drivers would be
loaded from modules.  That would remove almost all requirements to compile
a custom kernel in the first place.  :)

Granted, changing "options" in the kernel would require recompilation, but
general use and hardware changes wouldn't.

Most likely not a GSoC project.  But it's still a nice dream.  :)
-- 
Freddie Cash
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