Any GUI is going to abstract you from the underlying system. (For a good treatise on this, check out "In the Beginning Was the Command Line" by Neal Stephenson.) I prefer the use of the CLI because it gets me close to the subsystems. The price is the system doing exactly what I say, for good or ill. GUI's take some of that intimate control away, but sometimes that's what you want. -- Jonathan M. Prigot <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 18:02 +0000, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > > From: Mark Woodward [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > > A powerful gui that dumbs down your admin tasks with all sorts of pitfalls > > and shortcomings that enable you to shoot yourself in the foot. > > > > That's true of all GUI's atop of complex paradigms. > > Only if the GUI doesn't fully implement the underlying layer, or if the GUI > lacks error detection/correction that affects the underlying layer. > > But any gui that is fully featured simply gives access and control to the > same stuff in a format that doesn't require memorization, and uses geography > / real estate / visual aids, that accelerate your productivity. I can name, > for example, the IP address configuration GUI. It gives you full access to > the underlying stuff, without need to memorize which files contain those > configs, nor what the precise syntax is for each of those files. And of > course, "those files" is a set of files which is prone to change from rev to > rev of the OS. > > But since this topic is about webmin, my experience with webmin is just like > my experience with ASDM. It neither implements the full featureset under the > hood, nor does a problem-free implementation of the stuff that implements. > You try to make some change, and when you hit Apply, it throws some error > back at you... Some of what you were doing might have been applied, and some > might not... And various other problems. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
