Re: [cobalt-users] New Raq3 GUI finished?!?

["Charles Williams \( CEO ACNS \)" <cwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] New Raq3 GUI finished?!?


> > Hi, I know there are alot of you out there that have the same thought as
> me:
> > Why are we still using the Cobalt Control Panel? - It lacks SO many
> > features,
> <snip>
>
> > I have already started to write the frame work for a New GUI for the
> Raq3 -
> > But, it is a big job.
>
> I talked to Jeff Lasman on the phone just before Christmas, and the topic
> drifted to this very subject - the Cobalt GUI.
> Tons of people complain about it, but truly - the people who use Cobalts
are
> the people who either NEED the GUI because they are wary of (or don't know
> how to) changing/administering the files themselves, or they just want to
> say "We host on Cobalts" - brand name recognition.
>
> The people who don't need the GUI or want the brand recognition have moved
> on to generic Linux/Apache boxes with higher processors and FAR lower
costs.
>
> Yet there are so many people complaining about the GUI, and so many people
> who say they're "working on a new GUI".
>
> Jeff said something kinda prophetic. It at least bears remembering the
next
> time you think "Why doesn't someone make a better GUI?":
> He said: "Cobalt has a team of 20 people working on this GUI, full-time
with
> pay, and they've been working on it for 5 years."
>
> And this is the best that it's gotten in that time, with that many people
> dedicating 40 hours a week to it for 5 years. (That's 208,000 total
hours.)
> Sooooo... if you think you can do better in your spare time after work
with
> your kids distracting you, and still managing to get enough sleep to get
up
> and go to work the next morning and not completely alienating your spouse,
I
> say...
>
> GOOD LUCK!!
> Seriously, more power to ya, but I sincerely think your time would be
better
> spent learning how to administrate a generic Linux box and the Apache
files
> so that you don't need the GUI.  Once you don't need a GUI, you don't need
a
> Cobalt - and the quivering fear that goes along with it when installing
> patches and rebooting!  <grin>
>
> Carrie Bartkowiak

Well, I kinda agree.  To a certain extent.  There are some folks out there
that know how to run generic Linux boxes but the GUI makes it  just a tad
easier and faster to get things done.  I know I'm not the best in the world
of Linux, but, I do have a few generic boxes that work just fine.  The only
thing is you constantly have to remember where everything is.  And if you
use a few differant flavors of Linux that can get real tedious real quick.
With Cobalt systems you don't have to drop to the line much and when you do
it is for some heavy hitting situations not standard routine stuff.  Just my
2 cents.

Chuck