RE: Web site up! (GUI vs. CLI)

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Mon Jul 05 1999 - 19:49:58 MDT


O'Regan, Emlyn writes:

> The idea of going back to the command line OSes of old, fishing out printer
> manuals full of control codes, or poking frequencies into the registers in
> my sound card, or trying to write ping to talk to the net over my modem...
> why not just chop off my hands.

The dichotomy is artificial. I use both GUI and CLI all of the
time. They are not mutually exclusive, but complementary.



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