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From: Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid>
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In article <dg44ovF9hfuU4@mid.individual.net>, Huge wrote:
> [I wrote]
>> That seems to me to symptomatic of one of the problems we face with 
>> Linux. It has some very nice, functional, low-level commandline
>> tools (like mkfs) ... but is constantly being criticized for the
>> fact that these tools are not "user friendly" because they require
>> commandline use.
>
> Not by me - I've been adminning Unixey systems for about 30 years.
> Not thinking of mkfs is more to do with my advancing age and
> consequent poor memory than it is to do with GUIness or otherwise.

<smile>

No, the problem I meant was that the Linux world is trying so hard to 
demonstrate to its nay-sayers that everything can be done with GUI 
tools, and that you don't need to drop down to the commandline, that 
the GUI tools are becoming over-sophisticated to the point where -- as 
you found out -- they actually don't to the simple jobs as well as the 
commandline tools they're intended to make redundant.

> Although I do like Guinness.

Stout fellow!

-- 
Cheers,
 Daniel.