From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 21 16:23:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4080C37B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:23:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A650E43E31 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:23:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sun, 21 Jul 2002 19:23:42 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 1F5C5BB34; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 19:23:33 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: "Grant Cooper" Subject: Re: Administrators - GUI's or Command lines Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 19:23:32 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 Cc: References: <004101c2310b$8029f5b0$2afececd@TCOOPER> In-Reply-To: <004101c2310b$8029f5b0$2afececd@TCOOPER> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207211923.32828.bts@babbleon.org> 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 On Sunday 21 July 2002 07:08 pm, Grant Cooper wrote: | quick question for the admins, do you guys perfer to work out of a GUI such | as KDE or just from freeBSD CLI(command line interface)? That's a little ambiguous. I, for one, Like to use a GUI on my "main screen" just so that I can have editor windows up and shells up at the same time and see the one while working in the other. I don't like using GUI *tools* for anything. So I use a GUI, but within the GUI I strictly use the CLI (shell), not the GUI tools. Did you mean "do you prefer a GUI environment vs. a console" or "do you prefer GUI tools vs. command-line tools"? PS: I'm not really an administrator, so I don't technically qualify the answer the question. Also, there is a little bit of a lie; there are two GUI tools I use: a full-screen editor is, let's face it, a big improvement over a line-oriented editor. I'll take vi over ed any old day of the week. And, for reasons I can't entirely explain, I really like very GUI mail programs. Go figure. But I stick with terminal-window tools for reading news and all system-administration functions and everything to do with my job. I really dislike things like "WYSIWYG" word processors, and much prefer LaTeX. So I'm about as much as a stick-in-the-mud as you're likely to find for everything but mail. Why, then, do I run KDE of all things (and really love it)? I dunno. Color me inconsistent. | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message