On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, herrold wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Daniel Roesen wrote:
>
> > > There should be NO pre-requisite that a box have a working X server
> > > just to be able to configure its printers. Or anything else.
>
> I certainly concur.
>
> ... netcfg and netconf are also a similar pair of offenders. I just
> give up and install a very minimal X and fvwm subset -- but
> configuring remotely across a dialup ppp link is _almost_ impossible
> [but I've done it].
I have used webmin to configure systems. And if you are into weird and
wonderfull experiances you can configure it using lynx in character mode.
It is a bit cluttered but is useable.
> (My point: Nothing in /usr/doc, or the new 7.x /usr/share/doc ...
> the coredumps by info are its endearing way of reporting that no
> info page was found (smile) ... )
>
> But consider RH's POV. It is not as glitzy to complete this part of
> the featureset -- dialup is not growing -- TUIs are disfavored --
> small unix tools are disfavored -- documentation is left to last.
>
> I usually just copy a set of pre-built template files over, and sand
> and trim to fit ...
Text terminals are not dead. I have just spent the last 4 months
converting terminal applications from SCO to Linux for a customer that is
still selling wyse60 terminals to customers. There are lots of places
where there is no room to put a mouse and many data entry applications run
much faster in text mode with no GUI to get in the way.
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