It is true Red Hat has GUI config devices that once your used to
them it is fine. But then you never learn about the Unix plumbing system.
You don't need to know a lot about the file system, but you should have an
idea where things are located. I have been getting new software for my
computer and for my own reasons I mount it in directories off /usr/local.
Now when I want to read some documentation on STS I recall it was added
and so I look at /usr/local for that software.
It took me a year to figure out for certain that the file system
has a lot of nice features, and how to find files regardless of where they
are. I run the simple X window manager that comes with Slackware. It
allows me to do lots of things at the same time. But most of what I do is
done from xterm windows. Even pine which I do love, is from a xterm
window.
I have Red Hat 5.1 loaded on 2 computers. It loads fine after you
learn how to use that wierd partition tool! It loads a win-95 looking X
manager and it does come up in Xwindows. If that had happened when I first
tried Linux, I would have never learned how to run a unix system. But Red
Hat is for people who want to USE a computer, not learn.
On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Gevaerts Frank wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, hitchhiker wrote:
>
> > agreed...
> > anyone posting questions on this list PROBABLY (IMHO) ought to be using
> > something along the lines of Red Hat.
>
> I don't know. I never used Red Hat so I'm not sure of course, but is it
> possible to do basic system administration in Red Hat from the command
> line ? Not everyone has or needs X. It seems to me from what I've seen on
> other people's machines that Red Hat likes to put config information in
> files that are easy to find for their GUI tools, but hard to find if you
> want to do things manually. Of course I could be entirely wrong, but if I
> am, why should an other distro be more advisable for more advanced users?
>
> > it's when you find you don't need this list anymore that using the other
> > ditro's is more adviseable.
> > <grins>...as though I can really talk...I'm more of a newbie than most
> > of the people here, I'm sure.
>
> I still think of myself as a (relative) newbie. That is, I edit all my
> (slackware) config files by hand (for X this gives the best possible
> results, for other things it's just more convenient for me to remember
> what file to edit than what tool to use to edit that setting), but I find
> myself copying the network initialisation script and adapting it for some
> new need (eg a temporary different IP), than learning ifconfig and route
> syntax.
>
> Frank
>
>
Best wishes
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