From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 10:15: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 720C01549A for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:14:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p13-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.132.6.142]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id DAA19073; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 03:14:23 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3857D1B0.66C930F9@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 02:36:48 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chris@calldei.com Cc: Wilko Bulte , Mark Newton , Peter Jeremy , Donn Miller , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? References: <2177.945155945@zippy.cdrom.com> <3855F364.E66EC87B@cvzoom.net> <99Dec15.073843est.40325@border.alcanet.com.au> <19991215083352.B3500@internode.com.au> <19991215000600.C77327@yedi.iaf.nl> <19991214174432.Y868@holly.calldei.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Costello wrote: > > What do you want in making Unix quick to administer? Seems to > me that's the real goal of those things. Click click click done, > you know. /me clear the throat GUI's are *NEVER* the faster way to administer. They can make faster a very limited set of tasks. When I worked with AIX, even though I was very comfortable with SMIT, at any time when I wanted to do something fast, it was CLI all the way. Perhaps you mean "easy" instead of "quick"? Or maybe "quick" as in "flat learning curve"? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message