2011/9/27 Juan J. <reid...@usebox.net>:
> On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 08:28 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote:
>> [...]
>> I'd suspect the average person on the end of the phone wouldn't be too
>> scared of being talked through fixing it rather than average bloke on
>> the end of th phone where you say "First go to the server and go to
>> the console and do this" <- Easiest way to destroy sales ever.
>
> Being able to connect over SSH and fix things is priceless :)

Yesterday I spent nearly an hour explaining how to do port forwards to
the head of IT at a company I deal with now and again so I could do
this. That is hassle that is best avoided in all honesty.

<snip>
> I know people in a corporate environment that use RHEL basically because
> the GUI tools. The have the feel of Linux power, but at the same time
> it's just point & click in a dialog window.

This is more or less exactley my point really.

-Matt Daubney

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