> A GUI should run a commandline interface. If it > shows what it does > then that is fine.
Agreed. > A GUI should not do magical things which cannot be > done through > a commandline interface. Agreed. > GUIs do not scale. And never will. Correct; and this is one of the inherent problems a GUI paradigm has. This is precisely why GUI will never be quite as powerful as a CLI tool. Just stick a system on a serial line, and all the fancy GUIs become completely useless in a fraction of a second. > So, how do you do this on 1000 Macs? ...Or nearly 2000 Solaris servers of various sizes and configurations, like I had to? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
