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

["Chris Harden" <chris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

very well said.

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Carrie
Bartkowiak
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 5:22 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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


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