Actually Linux and many other unices both free and commercial have ACLs too that in theory need to be supported so I don't see why it should be our job here to implement a Gnome GUI for ACLs here. I guess the best people to talk to about this would be the Gnome people.
I'll be frank to you however. If you can't be bothered going to the shell then maybe UNIX just wasn't made for you. By all means try Apple's OSX, you will find they have some of the most comprehensive GUIs money can buy. Actually a personal friend of mine bought a MAC a month ago and he said he was impressed with what a snap it is to setup and run. He said he wanted it because he was sick and tired having to fiddle with X server visuals and the like just to play a game. He got MAME to run on it in no time he said and actually presented me the other day with a color screenshot of Zaxxon endlevel robot boss taken the instance he fragged it. Try to get a screenshot out of MAME running on a Linux framebuffer and you know that those Apple developers got it right. But then, Apple probably spent as much money and effort developing a world class desktop system as Sun spent on developing an enterprise class server OS so that should be another clue for you. Tell you what, most GUI admin tools are more of a hassle to use than anything else. I don't know about you colleagues, but I spend at least six time as much time in one of those tools than glancing at the man page for a less used command and then just using that. This btw was also why I got rid of SuSE Linux at home over their graphical system configuration editor "YaST2" (AIX's SMIT reloaded). Oh and while we're on the subject for SMC I have little love left for either. I'm not trying to make the case here of completely abandoning graphic tools but I think such efforts need to be focussed on basic simple tasks. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
