Something about KIUS : "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." ~Author Unknown
from other OS : ....Correction, a professional OS that requires its users to be professionals. Not a bunch of whining windows update people that have to call "IT" to launch excel. In case you hadn't noticed we are old school UNIX users that don't mind fixing whatever problem is at hand. Including writing code or fixing a bug. This is why in the olden days your IT department was worth something and wasn't a bunch of monkeys reading a script. You can build nice GUI around CLI. It's a way of http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+vpanels/ or some GUIs in Gnome and so on. But CLI is sometimes more easy and more quicker way of doing something then clicking there and there. You must work with CLI and GUI for some time to fully understand it. Yes, home user don't go trough CLI. For this way there is MacOs, Ubuntu, Windows and so on for him. But don't try communist approach on me that you know better what's best for me. I know what's best for me that's why I use OpenBSD and OpenSolaris. I'm advanced user so please leave decisions for me, ok? No one is saying that you must use OpenSolaris or any other OS then Windows. We are saying simple sentence - Use what's appropriate for you. Time can't change anytime in future so much that I will must use OS for "newbies" and I have good reasons for it especially in those Internet times. Read at least this post http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20091025011137 and maybe you will understand why KIUS is danger even for users which want KIUS. For home users there are things like Network-manager in Gnome under Ubuntu, or nwam under OpenSolaris and so on. But I want more control that's why I prefer CLI because I can control and change much more things with it then it will be anytime possible with GUI. Please tell us how you will check status of your ARP table or change ARP settings in Windows with GUI ;-) Or if your binary blob driver for network card can't change MAC address how you will do it in Windows? In regedit, but WTH how can users can now or remember this name? Especially last part ;- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318} Yes, that's why banks, telecom operators and so on use Unix systems without GUI ;-) And companies like Dell, HP and others sell laptops/desktops/servers with Unix systems too, that's why RedHat funds have higher price then Microsoft, that's why in professional graphic industry is more then half workstations with Unix, that's why movies like Jurassic Park, Matrix, Terminator and so on were made on SGI with Irix which is Unix and hey, they had super GUI and great 3D in 1992 and so on, where was Windows ;-), Unix is there from 1969 si Unix is ahead not Windows ;-), yea those great superb cheap options read first something about this crap i386 architecture, weak implementation of BIOS and so on then maybe you will understand why crackes so much love Windows and your data ;-) And why netbooks are with ARM, super servers are with SPARC and so on. There is place for many OS's but some are more appropriate for some taks then others so please get it right as soon as possible ;-) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
