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Re: [News] GUI versus Command Line in Server Administration

____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 28 August 2007 14:50 : \____

> [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> 
>>> Linux administration will become GUI
>> 
>> Gooeys are for gurls, real men use the console.
>> 
> 
> I continue to find that as soon as I want to do something really
> complex, the shell is where I go.
> 
> I rather like KDE's automounting of flash drives and the like, though -
> it does seem to work rather well.

Which version? It has worked well since 3.4 (as far back as 2004/5 and at the
very least). SuSE 8.1 with KDE 3.1 did not have this function.
 
> Still, as per the section I wrote for the FAQ some time ago, the shell
> is as easily accessible from the GUI as it is from the console in linux.
> No Windows-like "DOS" restrictions.

Does Windows do ALT+F2 and show you icons on the fly, including autocomplete?

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