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The downsides of Linux
para_fms:
quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
Ahhh grasshopper, you have much to learn. If your time is valuable to you then you will forget about the GUI and learn the command line, then automate.
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well, i'm not doing anything commercial. my primary daily activities include things like email corraspondance, lot's of internet activity, graphics editing, administrating a counter-strike server, writing scripts and doing sprites and various other half-life related stuff, FTP transfers and web site work. i don't think i'd ever have to leave the GUI for the vast majority of work i do. what i was refering to, reguarding the command line, has more to do with set-up and configuration of the OS itself. i understand i will have to learn, at the very least, some of the basic syntax and techniques.
voidmain:
What setup tasks are you referring to that does not have a GUI? I know of several GUI apps for every system setup task (although I prefer command line). Have you looked at Webmin? http://www.webmin.com/
Webmin can do just about everything as far as system configuration and management. I won't mention "linuxconf" because I think it sucks. But I think webmin should be included in all GNU/Linux distros, some do include it. It can configure your drives, configure your network connections, databases, Apache, BIND, install Perl modules, etc etc.. All graphically and just as easily done remotely as locally since it is web based. I still personally prefer command line but my partners love webmin. They are Windows types so they feel more comfortable with webmin and find it very easy to use.
lazygamer:
So when I get Linux on my comp, should I DEFINITLY put Webmin on?
choasforages:
play with it first
TheQuirk:
Wasn't Caldera the company that developed Webmin? I remember playing with it in OpenLinux 2.4
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