From: Robert Love <rml@ufl.edu>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: CML2 <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, rick@linuxmafia.com
Subject: Re: Kernel configuration. It's not just a job, it's an adventure!
Date: 16 Jun 2001 22:38:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <992745542.3204.2.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010616222709.A11872@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010616222709.A11872@thyrsus.com>
On 16 Jun 2001 22:27:09 -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Various people on the Linux kernel mailing list and elsewhere have been heard
> to opine that CML2's user interface is too oriented towards nontechnical
> users. In response to these complaints, I have implemented a fourth CML2
> front end with an interface style expressly designed for the serious,
> hard-core hacker. A transcript of an example session follows:<snip>
don't you have some linux advocating to be doing? :)
_WAY_ too much time on your hands!
i could not, however, resist matching the original adventure games:
> take SCSI
It won't budge.
> take SCSI
Seriously, it is not going to move an inch.
> take SCSI
You try, but it won't move.
> take SCSI
It moves a little!
> take SCSI
SCSI: taken.
--
Robert M. Love
rml@ufl.edu
rml@tech9.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-17 2:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-17 2:27 Kernel configuration. It's not just a job, it's an adventure! Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-17 2:38 ` Robert Love [this message]
2001-06-17 3:05 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-17 2:57 ` Keith Owens
2001-06-17 3:40 ` Ingo Oeser
[not found] ` <20010617002138.A9374@whitestar.soark.net>
2001-06-17 4:41 ` Eric S. Raymond
[not found] ` <9ghc7a$ogh$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
2001-06-17 10:37 ` Colonel
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2001-06-18 4:48 Wayne.Brown
2001-06-18 14:01 ` Eric S. Raymond
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