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

["Clark E. Morgan" <prlhkr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>

> > 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
>
Nobody asked for my 2 cents either; but I agree with both in principle.
Still,
to paraphrase a late 70's song "I was Linux when Linux when Linux wasn't
cool,";
and yet still find reason and opportunity both to appreciate the Cobalt Web
Interface. If it has a problem it all, it is in it's lack of completeness,
not
it's inherently good intentions. And there are reasons besides the GUI and
the
snazzy case to use a Cobalt.

But I have to say, if it's true that the Cobalt interface has been worked on
by
20 programmers for 5 years, well, that's just pathetic - that thing should
be
near perfect by now.

Clark