You make good points, Matthew. But seems to me that something Webmin-ish should be able to run over most any link. Webmin, imho, is the best candidate for a be-all administrator's gui tool. (Its many current shortcomings notwithstanding).
But on the desktop I wish the likes of Mandrake, et al would stop mucking with their very functional but utterly oddball things like HardDrak and such. If we could put all their efforts into Kde Control Center the issue could shortly be put into the "solved problem" file. Michael On Monday 04 February 2002 09:40 am, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > While I agree with some of what you said, Mike, I must add that as of > February 4th, 2002, GUI apps for remote administration are still infants. > They are relatively insecure and bloated in their use of bandwidth when > compared with the their slick cousin, SSH. Yes, you can get lost in > bash/etc... but that is because it is so powerful, as is the CLI. GUI's > are great and I love to see more added to Linux all the time. I fight > for Linux on the desktop and GUI-everything is what it is going to take. > But when I administer remote clients (especially the poor souls locked > into a 5 year contract with their 56k ISDN connection) SSH and the > command line is what I want. Dated and trapped in a time-warp? Perhaps. > Pragmatic? You betcha. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
