[PLUG] Dividing up a console screen
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.dyndns.org
Thu Oct 21 18:46:48 UTC 2004
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"Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders at acm.org> writes:
> 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.
Worse yet, many of these interfaces preclude being able to change
things by hand in the configs without screwing up the graphical luser
interface.
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