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UNIX & LINUX Computing Journal: The Text Based Interface

[ Thanks to Jay
Fink
for this link. ]

So why do so many UNIX users, after getting frustrated
using Linuxconf, the “Control Panel”, HP’s SAM or any other GUI
admin tool have tendancy to huff and puff, then close the damn
thing and fire up an xterm?

“Reliability, Understanding, Power and Control.”

“Those are the main reasons. There are an assortment of others,
one theory for example, states that UNIX users are largely
“liberal” and as such have a tendancy to like wordsmithing.”

Complete
Story

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