[Gllug] Debian gateways

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Sun Feb 3 23:47:47 UTC 2002


On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Bruce Richardson said:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:39:47PM +0000, Nix wrote:
>> Avoiding GUI config tools is important. Working in text mode at the
>> console keyboard is not :)
> 
> It's a good place to learn Linux/Unix skills if that is not your
> background, though, which is the point I was making/reiterating.

Again, it doesn't matter if you're in X or not; that you're not using
single-distro-specific hide-everything GUI config tools is what's
important. Use the invariant stuff :)

(of course, you can't tell which stuff *is* invariant until you've used
several Unices...)

-- 
`However, if you want to detect whether (say, 1 in 1000) cars are being
 abducted by bunnies along their route, you've got a whole new problem.'
                              - Scott James Remnant on network problems

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