From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 23 05:02:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA21626 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 05:02:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk ([194.72.37.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA21619 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 05:02:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@internationalschool.co.uk) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk (bamboo.tis [10.0.0.70]) by internationalschool.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09061 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:00:30 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <353F2D74.6FDFE67D@internationalschool.co.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:00:52 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: salesman is thinking..... References: <9804181903.AA12030@ringworld.uniscape.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stefanos Kiakas wrote: > > We should not compete with GUI, but it should be possible to > perform minimal tasks with a GUI tool. > > >> I agree. I only suggested setting up a 'port-driven' GUI/Personal > >> Station because I thought it would be a quick (read minimum effort) > >> answer to the PC wannatryit's we get queries from. I _like_ the > >> CLI, although I'm for 18 years a programmer. > How is placing a GUI tool as a front end destroying BSD? Take > for example adduser on FreeBSD 2.2.5. etc. etc. http://www.caldera.com/coas/ seems to have some very good ideas. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message