On Seg, 2006-12-04 at 21:10 +0100, Miloslav Trmac wrote: > If the system administrators have the choice between > 1) writing a shell script that echo(1)s settings to files in sysfs, > 2) writing a shell script that writes them to gconf (which is more > complicated and not as easy to test as cat()ing sysfs files), running > g-p-m and gconfd, Actually someone could even write a fuse filesystem to allow tweaking all this with your usual UNIX commands and thus grant you some sort of legacy compatibility. I understand that people are generally afraid of changes to working habits etc, but we can't stop at Linux is a good UNIX clone. We must evolve and search new possibilities, not being afraid to change 30 year old paradigms if needed. IMHO we (free software comunity) do need more integrated host and network level configurability at various levels: networking, power management, users, etc. I think the work being done by David Zeuthen and others is well headed it that direction and badly needed. Oh and don't come waving the windows_style_registry_is_evil flag because of a simple reason: this is free software, anyone with the required skills can participate in the design and the source is out there in the open. Oh and there's no need to copy other systems. We can and should IMO build on the concepts these other systems use that are proven to be robust, scalable and integrated though. Rui
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