From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 21 4:37:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6599B37B416 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 04:37:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fALCbLp96251; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:37:22 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <005701c17289$446b6720$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: , References: <00a601c17202$0f9af880$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <200111202228.47120@starbreaker.net> Subject: Re: home pc use Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:37:12 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew writes: > Frankly, I don't like staring at a bare console. What's bare about a console? There have been many times when I've cursed Windows systems precisely because they have no simple text-based interface for administration. Even on the local machine, there is almost nothing that you can accomplish with simple command lines, and since there is nothing remotely approaching a telnet interface, you can't administer the server from afar with command lines, either. Instead you must struggle with bandwidth-hungry, error-prone graphic interfaces for remote administration, when you can get remote administration to work at all. > Mouse? Hardly need one unless I'm working with > GIMP or playing QuakeForge. I've found that the main reason for having a mouse on a GUI is that no other easy way to navigate among windows exists. But if you are not using a GUI, you don't need to navigate among windows. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message