On 17-Aug-07, at 12:34 AM, Gora Mohanty wrote: >> Recommending command line options to do something as basic as >> downloading a >> file from the net sends out really bad signals to Linux newbies.. > [...] > > Speak for yourself, dude. The so-called newbies that I have explained > command-line ways to do things with have been quite happy with the > results, and I see no reason to push the GUI over the command-line, > or vice-versa. Each has its advantages in different areas, but > downloading files is *not* one in which there is a clear gain with > one or the other. In my opinion, of course.
I personally am a very much gui guy - my firewall server has X running and I configure mainly through GUI. But I also have long long experience of flaky internet connections. I have downloaded 100MB files on 9.6k diallup where the diallup usually lasted 5 to 10 minutes - would take upto 20 days to do one download - curl was my friend. And flaky is still there - how do you explain to newbies that even though firefox has said that the download is complete - it isnt? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
