New Member

[Gregory J.Neumann]

AMEN to that, brother Robert!  The single biggest reason I dumped RedHat 
for servers is that the configuration tools had a truly stupid (as in 
Microsoft-like) "feature" of correcting all your manual configuration 
edits back to their defaults each time you'd open the GUI tools!  They 
may have improved, this was RH 6.2, but I don't care to try again now 
that I've learned where, how and why to do things much more precisely on 
the command line.

-Greg

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 12/19/01, 09:00:39, Robert Dege <rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote regarding 
Re: New Member:

>---- snip! -----

> My plug, I don't like GUI configs.  They're good for people who are
> starting out, but they cloud the power of console configurations, and 
make
> you dependant on X.  If you lose your GUI, you become a fish out of 
water.
> Also, GUI configs can add certain things that you're unaware of, or don't
> allow you to configure or change certain features.

> -Rob