On Sunday 21 July 2002 07:53 pm, Brian McCann wrote: | Both. I use KDE only when I need to download stuff off the web, or look | up something off the web, and I use KDE sometimes for mail. But I will | always do my server "maint" and configs from a CLI using an editor like | vi. None of my servers even have X on them...and the only box that does | is one of the workstations at my desk...I use SSH and/or telnet for | everything. In most cases, if I need to download something from the web | to one of my servers, I will download it to my workstation first (and I | run an FTP server on my workstation) then download it from my | workstation to my server. IMHO...and I know I'll get some $h1t for | it...but....GUI configuration programs are for pansies. :)\
The bigger problem IMHO with GUI configuation programs is that they produce unreproducable results. I want a file that I can edit, and thereforce squirrel off someplace and "diff" later. GUIs make it difficult or impossible to do these things. Information hiding is not *always* a good thing! | | --Brian | | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Grant Cooper | Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 7:08 PM | Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Administrators - GUI's or Command lines | | | quick question for the admins, do you guys perfer to work out of a GUI | such as KDE or just from freeBSD CLI(command line interface)? | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message