[Gllug] Debian gateways

[Sean Burlington]

On Saturday 02 February 2002 8:20 pm, you wrote:
> Nix said:
> > Avoiding GUI config tools is important. Working in text mode at the
> > console keyboard is not :)
[snip]

>
> Someone made a tool, that tool works, when it works well, and it makes
> my life easier. I use it. As long as I understand what is going on in
> the background, does that make me a lesser man? I like X, hell, I like
> Win32 as well, each has its place in on my desktop. People should use
> the tools they have available to make their working environment as
> "pleasurable" and as productive as they can.  Forgive me if I'm not
> using Modules in my Kernel or SWAT for my SAMBA, I'll just live in the
> dark ages.
>

fair enough if it works for you 

I find GUI admin tools don't work well for shared admin tasks

the two key failing of all the gui tools I have seen is that they make no 
provision for rolling back changes or making comments about those changes.

this to me is the key advantage of config at the console

(these things could be done in a gui but I haven't seen it)

-- 

Sean

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