[PLUG] Dividing up a console screen

[Roderick A. Anderson]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> I think it's highly unlikely that my mom or brother-in-law will ever 
> be interested in (much less thrilled by) command-line administration. 
> Only a well designed GUI will convince them that Linux is a usable 
> alternative to their current OS.

And I agree.  What bothers me most is the console/non-GUI tools are 
disappearing; typically being replaced with a GUI or web only interface 
no text/console or command line option.

I'm a long time Linuxconf user.  I know others have issues with it but
every time one came up I've seen the solution/fix out in a few days.  I
mention Linuxconf because it has all three interfaces (well actually four
if you count the command line options); text/console, gui, and web.  So
for my text/console challenged Windows folks I set up the web based
interface. When I'm on site I do the command line, text/console, or
long-hand.  (Sometimes I'm lazy and use the web interface myself. :-)

So no one loses.  One time I had the gui interface running on my desktop
with connections to three servers.  Kind of cool to just un-minimize an
icon and control a server.

Now back to our regularly scheduled postings.  :-)


Rod
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