[luau] MSWindows

[Daniel J Nishimura]

On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, T. David Burns wrote:

> At 11:51 PM 7/26/2002 -1000, you wrote:
>
> >One last comment....don't you think it's ironic that the GUI front-end
> >for Linux such as KDE and GNOME (on default settings anyways) have such
> >a strong resemblence to the Windows desktop?  We can't hate Microsoft
> >for everything?
>
>
> 1) I wish the resemblance was stronger, then I could find stuff faster.
> 2) So M$ invented the GUI now? Or even was first to market? Xerox invented
> it and Apple got people to buy it. Then M$ got on the bandwagon, and after
> a few years of serious effort and several revisions came up with something
> ... actually usable.

To clear things up, I didn't say Microsoft invented the GUI.  I said that
the front-end GUI's that Linux uses such as KDE and GNOME resembles the
Windows desktop (i.e. The start button on the bottom lefthand side, the
task bar, etc...).


> >By the way (sorry this IS the last comment), Redhat's administrative
> >tools are a bit confusing, but I believe that new sys admins should
> >learn to do everything from commandline.  Someday your system will mess
> >up, and you will have to boot into single user mode without any graphic
> >interface to work with.
>
> *** Irrational rant mode on ***
> This sounds like an excuse to me. If it's that messed up, its time to get
> out the backups. For this one (hopefully unlikely) possibility we should
> memorize the command line arcana? Put your system on a different partition
> from your data, and back it up. If it goes fizz, reload it. Using a GUI all
> the while, if possible.
> ** Irrational rant mode off ***

GUI's are always a convienence to have...but as a sys admin, unpredictable
situations will occur where you are left only with the commandline.  I
had KDE, Gnome, icewm, etc... mess up at one point.  If
you are using linux as a server, it is good practice to install only what
is necessary, (GUI is usually not necessary for a server) to minimize the
number of possible exploits.