On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:51, InfoHelp wrote: > The split-format meetings GUI/CLI around a tea-break catered best to all > parties, it seemed. > A big ask, but all seemed satisfied with those. >
Actually I don't think that the gui/cli spit is the same as the old hand/newbie split. the cli is not hard. text based configuration files are often very well documented with a ratio of comments to lines that actually do the work at 90-95%. IE for every line that does something there are often 9-9.5 lines of comments. working out how to configure the same service via a gui can be harder. sometimes it is the other way round, the guis are well documented and the cli is sparse at best. But what we shouldn't assume is that a gui method is easier for newbies and that the cli is only for the experienced or the geeks. Someon famously once said that X is just a method for squeezing more consoles on the screen via xterm :-) june is fine for me at this stage BTW.
