On Tuesday 15 November 2005 7:18 pm, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
It's for all those MSCE drones that can't figure out what to do in a Nix CLI.
'Know what......bet that's the reason, alright! :)
But people need to take that seriously. Anymore, I rarely use the KDM installed on my servers. Since KSnuffle was abandoned, I have far less reason for having the KDE on a server. But for a long time, I felt more comfortable being able to get a complete desktop at the server console. My servers boot to init 3 these days.
So do I, but I also use KDE frequently. The only time I setup with init 5 is for a client box.
Call it training wheels, or whatever other disparaging epithet you care to give it, but noobs often need that kind of transition assistance. We have to provied a recovery path for MCSE's and the like.
They need to start out "right," and IMHO, that means at console. I start out right away showing them how to write scripts.....something simple and how to make it executable. I show them how and why drives were partitianed the way I did them, etc. 'Basics that won't be obvious in a manual that they need NOW.
Also, there are many cases in which a GUI can consolidate information and/or controls in ways that simply cannot be done effectively with traditional TTY interfaces.
Yepper.........one reason I'm a BIG KDE supporter. ;) Fred -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x