From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 15:30:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD101155EF for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 15:30:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org ([216.62.157.60]) by mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with ESMTP id <0FMT006VQ2LYWY@mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net> for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 17:29:59 -0600 (CST) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA16629; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 17:32:19 -0600 (CST envelope-from chris) X-URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~chris/ Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 17:32:19 -0600 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? In-reply-to: <3857D1B0.66C930F9@newsguy.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Wilko Bulte , Mark Newton , Peter Jeremy , Donn Miller , current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <19991215173219.N868@holly.calldei.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) 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> <3857D1B0.66C930F9@newsguy.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 16, 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > 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"? I'm not going out of my way to make it so that you'll see "Click this thing here to make it so that hackers cannot send floods to port XXX" I'll do my best to make it as featureful as what we have in our commands here. -- |Chris Costello |Never trust a computer you can't lift. - Stan Masor `---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message