On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Bill Bogstad wrote:
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:14 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
The problem I have with GUI administration is if you make a mistake, you
never quite know what file got configured incorrectly, then you end up
troubleshooting the GUI to find out what to fix. 10 points for open-source. But
if you know what you're doing in the first place, it's nice to click once and
get it done.
I know it had its detractors (including me), but I think that IBM's
SMIT for AIX had a good idea. Put a "gui/text-based" wrapper around
the command line tools/config files and then show the user of the
GUIs are nice for once a year tasks, but hell on repeated setups, so it is
good to have both. The problem I see with providing both is that often the
GUI writes over the text file, which disables the
command-line/programmable interface.
daniel feenberg
NBER
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