Re: [Sheflug] Re: Gentoo Linux

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

And Lo! The Great Prophet Alex Hudson uttered these words of wisdom:
> 
> gconf-editor would be a good example. I would say webmin counts in a lot
> of places too; although some of it clearly is a wrapper. Most of gnome
> system admin isn't a wrapper. Anything which admins databases (LDAP, or
> RDBMS for example) is highly unlikely to be a wrapper. 

Can't comment on Gnome stuff -- not used that either ;) RDBMS GUI's tend to 
be wrappers round SQL statements though in the main (from what I've seen
anyhow). I know the LDAP daemon you can get for Linux has command line 
tools (and apparently you can use it to fiddle with Active Directory as 
well if you /really/ feel masochistic).


> The point I was making was that shell utilities are not defacto 'lower
> level' than GUI tools. To think like that is DOS-think; or perhaps the
> alternative lunacy of thinking of shell utilities as easy-to-use
> blankets around the syscalls, which are what real men use anyway.

Nah, I just tend to run ed on the fielsystem directly. Straight to the 
block layer - syscalls are for wimps (not WIMPS though).

> 
> > Chris... Slackware devotee (a shrinking breed)
> 
> Slackware? What's that?
> 

A better class than Debian ;)

Chris...

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