Anil Gulecha wrote:
On 4/23/07, *a b* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I just wonder how useful a GUI is going to be when you're going
over ttya.
I find Nero nearly useless. It's a *consumer grade* toy for
plants. Be that
as it may, we will just have to agree to disagree.
>There is a need for GUI, and Nero can well fill the gap.
Nero does not need to "fill the gap", because there is no gap.
This kind of an outlook does not help in driving Solaris. There _is_ a
gap. Perhaps well-seasoned users wont require GUIs to get the work
done, but newcomers find it very convenient (say if they want to burn
an mp3 disc using files lying all over the filesystem).
Ummm we have a couple of user groups here ... developers/power users
who want scriptablity
and power, casual users and newbies who want ease of use.
A developer/power user will go gaga over the power, flexibility,
detailed output and scriptability
that cdrecord and mkisofs provide. All sorts of automation using
remote terminals, expect,
distributed CD burning and what not ... wow wow!
Casual users, OpenSolaris newbies including people used to other OSes
like, Windows, MacOSx,
Linux couldn't care less about UDF, lofi, Joliet, Rock Ridge ... All
they want to do is pop in a
blank CD, grab a bunch of files, drop them into a window and voila -
they get written with all the
correct joliet-what and rock-what formatting. And what did you say
about some tty thingy ... well
do you mean those little green screens with lots of letters with
serious faced white robed guys poring
over them ... um uh oh ... well lets see wasn't that decades ago ...
I think I will go back to good ol'
Windows.
Regards,
Moinak.
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