Gregory Hosler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12-Sep-00 Statux wrote:
> > Honestly.. how many people actually use Linuxconf? :)
>
> I (with close to 10 years of Unix experiance, as well as 7
> Linux) recommend it to new users... which is not to say
> that I use it for everything I do.
You must have had much better linuxconf experiences than I
have. My experience has been that I go "Hm, instead of
really learning how to do this, why don't I give linuxconf a
shot", then it (a) doesn't work and (b) breaks something
else, so I both need to learn the "manual" approach *and*
debug whatever problems it caused.
My big gripe though is that it's too closed-mouth about what
it's doing. It pretends to ask you before it makes
modifications to something, but really it does some things
silently. If there was an extremely verbose linuxconf log,
at least it would serve the function of letting you know
what setup files you should be looking at. (And how about
automatically generated backup files and an undo feature?
Or is that too radical?)
(I also have a rule of thumb: when RedHat introduces some
new whizzy feature and recommends it for use by newbies, you
should wait a minimum of three distro point revs before you
even consider touching it. Of course by then, RedHat will
have yanked it and replaced it with some other alpha quality
software...)
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