Re: Preferences.app vs Configure.app; was Re: ANN: GNUtooth, Bluetooth 'support' for GNUstep

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

On 15.05.2003 11:20:47 Jeff Teunissen wrote:
>No, it's merely an artifact of how Apple machines are constructed, and
>inapplicable to commodity systems. Configure needs to be able to set
>things up, because on hardware that isn't locked down by the 
manufacturer,
>there are things that need to be set up before they will work.

<rant>
FUD, FUD, FUD! There is nothing locked down by manufacturer, you can add 
every IDE compliant drive (be it CD-ROM,HD or whatever), standard RAM 
modules, PCI cards, AGP cards and of course USB and FireWire 
periphericals. Of course there has to be a driver (either the generic one 
or one made by the manufacturer) that supports those components. But 
nobody is keeping you or anyone else from writing such a driver, there is 
even a dedicated mailing list for this. It's mostly the manufacturers that 
decide it is not worth to support Macs. And yes, there are some components 
that don't work under Mac OS X/Darwin but Linux/PPC.

I know that you have some hatred towards Macs. This is of course solely 
your decision and I don't want to keep you from acting out this bias. But 
don't tell things you can not prove.
</rant>

Back to topic. It IS annoying to be forced to reboot because some config 
has changed. It should be avoided where possible (but some things are out 
of reach for GNUstep because the underlying OS requires sometimes a reboot 
or at least a logout).

greetings, Lars