> Should I read that as "Sun doesn't really want to make Solaris a mainstream > O/S?" Because if they really are (Why else would OpenSolaris exist?) I don't > get the whole "who cares about GUI, it's all int he command line!" concept. > Command lines though useful in doing batch processing and clumping together > multiple things in a script, are a thing of the past. Managing systems using > a GUI is MUCH faster and intuitive than using command lines.
That depends. Maintaining LDAP throug a GUI makes sense, stopping and starting a CUPS-printer via the web-interface makes sense and I can't live without the GUI when I manage our 113 TB large vxfs-based storage. Stopping and starting apache, mounting nfs-partitions, altering fstab (vfstab on Solaris), reloading postgresql, restarting servers is done via command line (and ssh). Much faster, much cleaner, much easier and even works on slow lines! :-) > Sure, I like Windows and all the pretty GUI stuff that comes with it, but the > reason I like them is because it makes managing the system EASIER, bot > because Microsoft has more GUI porgrammers than Sun. If the registry becomes corrupt you may have tools to circumvent deficiensies on this OS, but what if some service makes the server reboot? How will you disable this service using a GUI? On FreeBSD you can boot into single user mode, either load an older kernel, or edit /etc/rc.conf or fstab or whatever issue that makes the server reboot and hopefully get it into multi user mode and start bughunting. -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
