[OpenIndiana-discuss] Chm viewer, xchm and Hipster

[Jim Klimov]

26 декабря 2014 г. 13:24:45 CET, Dmitry Kozhinov <dima at desktopfay.com> пишет:
>> For example i'm not using GUI but i have some difficulties with
>> administering from command lines (very hard to configure vlan,
>network
>> interfaces and so on).
>
>Look, even experienced UNIX admin has difficulties with command line 
>(not to offend anyone).
>Force me to edit config files with vi instead of gedit, and I will go 
>looking for a different job. I believe that new generation of system 
>administrators cannot afford spending half of their lives learning that
>
>command line magic spells. This is why OI is popular, and Illumian is 
>not. This is why Linux is popular (it would not if had no GUI at all). 
>And this is why Oracle Solaris has GUI.
>
>I understand that there are headless servers and datacenters, but this 
>is different topic.
>
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Use midnight commander editor then ;)
Text mode (x11 terminal interaction supported, but not required) and reasonably intuitive interface ;)
As for X11 on the server, remember that in terms of resources it eats precious ram (well maybe not so precious in modern machines), and in terms of security it is an additional attack surface. It makes sense to start it, if needed, on a need-to-use basis and then turn off.
For me X, especially with vnc, is primarily a way to run many terminals on one display and not lose terminal sessions and whatever diagnostic loops might be running there when i am breaking the network settings, or working remotely and with long-running tasks which i don't want to lose when ssh or vpn breaks, or when my laptop goes to sleep as i ride home while the server keeps doing some work, etc.
Though this year i became more of a full-time desktop hipster user (programming and browsing with a gui ide at work), so yes it is useful quite a bit ;)

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