On Friday 13 Aug 2004 14:53, Matt Johnson wrote:
--- Paul Taylor
wrote: On Friday 13 Aug 2004 08:19, linuxgirlie wrote:
The thing is we are designing this project with
schools that are using
RM and Microsoft systems. Now if both those
systems ran there servers
in console mode, then we would be aiming in the
wrong direction. But
seeing as they (esp. RM) are set up to be all
'point and click' this
is a audience we are aiming for.
I agree with Matt here and from experience within a school I can see exactly what you are aiming at. Also, despite managing to command some element of the CLI recently due to necessity and not desire (sorry Thomas) I am all for more GUIs.
I was just speaking for a small minority on this list, including myself, who have managed to get this far with mostly GUIs and things seem to be heading that way, like it or not. Having said that, I managed to do far more with vi and ssh on my managed servers than I could with Plesk (Linux in a Nutshell in hand). I have also never used yast et al for samba as the smb.conf and a text editor is all you need. Also, it was the mystical power of the CLI that drew me to *nix in the first place as I watched SGI gurus churn out loads of code to get my company's DVRs to work back in the early 90s. Our main customer then was a little one called Pixar who were recording video of Mr Potato Head onto the devices from for some obscure reason.....
Hmmmm. I've seen the power of working with text files over a gui. I'd advocate the gui as a way in, but would encourage working towards the command prompt. Incidently, 'mc' (midnight commander) was the way for me into a less gui'd system. It's a happy way into not installing X on servers.
Not one to try to show management when they want a shiney RM/2000 interface.
-- Matt
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