Re: [Sheflug] Re: Gentoo Linux

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet Alex Hudson uttered these words of wisdom:
> 
> The problem I have with Gentoo is that it deludes people into thinking
> they have more control over their system - I don't believe they do, I
> think they have different control. To dismiss GUI admin utilities as
> 'CLI wrappers' is DOS-think, and I think actually limits your
> understanding of modern Unix-style systems. 

I've never come across a GUI admin tool that isn't, in principle, a wrapper 
round the shell utilities. Feel free to enlighten me however :) I can't 
comment exactly on Gentoo as I've never used it.

Chris... Slackware devotee (a shrinking breed)

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