[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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