From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Apr 18 13:23:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22587 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 13:23:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mexcom.net (ver1-49.uninet.net.mx [200.38.135.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22088 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 20:22:15 GMT (envelope-from eculp@ver1.telmex.net.mx) Received: from sunix (telmex@sunix.mexcom.net [206.103.64.3]) by ns.mexcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA21629; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:18:16 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <35390C79.13956D1B@ver1.telmex.net.mx> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:26:33 -0500 From: Edwin Culp Organization: Mexico Communicates, S.C. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.14 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Benjamin CC: Stefanos Kiakas , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: salesman is thinking..... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Time to put on my flame proof suit. I can't wait any more. What is wrong with comming up with a vga xwindows and a simple mozilla as a configuration front end for configuration. This is the front end that more than maybe 80 Million people are using. Doesn't this tell us something? How many people are using Tcl/Tk or any other option? Thanks ed Dan Benjamin wrote: > > Stefanos Kiakas writes: > > > I know! It is not difficult to use the CLI, but it does not matter to > > them and they don't care, *they want a GUI*. > > This is very often the case in my experiences as well, and has, in some > cases, been the reason a company might want NT in the first place (let's > not go there). > > > No let's not go with Tcl/Tk, how many versions are there? Let's go with > > a WWW interface and a Java or GNUstep interface. The WWW interface will allow > > the sysadmin to modify the server parameters without being at the console and > > can use any OS he pleases Win98/MacOS/OS2/etc. The same could be said for Java. > > This is an excellent point - and I know that from my standpoint, access to > the server from anywhere on a floor or in a building (the way I depend on > telnet) would be a great selling point. > > -Dan B. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message