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- Here is the small history of Linuxconf.
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- 1-It was decided to create a "better" front-end to configure
- X. The program was called xconf.
- You can see here and there some function called xconf_something.
- There is still a directory xconf containing mostly stubs.
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- 2-The Xfree team has moved to 3.x and provide a tool. This
- tool does not look nice, but still allows easy (fairly) configuration
- of X. Anyway, quite many people are working to address this topic.
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- 3-the xconf project was dropped, Linuxconf was born. It was understood
- that in order to properly configured X or anything, there are quite
- a few other things which must be checked before.
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- 4-The starting idea of Linuxconf: askrunlevel, a utility to
- intercept the boot sequence et change it on the fly.
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- 5-It was decided to transform the dialog program (used by
- Slackware and many other configuration utilities) into a library.
- It was also decided to use C++ and stay away from "easy" script.
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- 6-A lot of work was added to the dialog library to make it self
- centering, easing the coding of dialogs. It was still in C even
- if the rest of the project was C++.
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- then time goes by and more and more features has been added...
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- 7-The idea of "netconf --update" came by. This was a new starting
- point for Linuxconf.
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- 8-More and more dialogs were done. The old dialog library could
- not provide the level of functionality. It has been almost
- completely rewritten in C++, allowing mixed type, multi field
- dialogs.
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- It is still possible to revamp dialog/main.c to create a new dialog
- program offering the new capabilities of the library. This would
- make the Slackware installation much more appealing.
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- 9-It was decided that the package was good enough to be released.
- A lot of work was added to the help files.
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- There we are!!!!
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