MESSAGE
| DATE | 2003-07-01 |
| FROM | From: "Ray C."
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Please check this before I send it.
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chose a better battle
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 10:00 am, Michael Richardson wrote:
> Please check this letter before I send it to Mandrake-Linux.
>
> My name is Michael L. Richardson, I am currently President of NYLXS,
> INC.
> (New York Gnu/Linux Scene). NYLXS is decicated to promoting Free Software
> in the NY Area. I have used Mandrake-Linux vers 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, 8.1, 9.0
> and now 9.1. In the Users guide for ver 9.1 section IV.11 introduction to
> Mandrake control center, Whats in DrakConf is written "Mandrake Control
> Center is Mandrake Linux's main configuration tool. It enables the system
> administrator to configure the hardware and the services used for all
> users. The tools accessible through the Mandrake Control Center greatly
> simplify the use of the system, notably by avoiding the use of the evil
> command line."
>
> I take execption to the phrase "notably by avoiding use of the evil
> command
> line". At the heart of GNU/Linux Systems is the use of the command line.
> For a System Adminstrator using GNU/Linux the main tool is the command
> line. This is not windows where users are not allowed to use the command
> line. Using the command line gives you the freedom to learn how to use your
> computer (not just the proprity progrqams someone else wrote. You lean how
> the various parts of the computer interact, how to write your own programs.
> When using the command line you are not limited to predetimered conditions
> imposed by someone else (With Free Software under the GPL you are free to
> modify programs to suit your needs) or write your own.
>
> The pharse "evil command line" has no place in Free Software or any
> system
> using Free Software it is a Redmond phrase. As you have made your distros
> easier to use you have been taking away choices (during the install you no
> longer have an expert choice. Oh it says expert but when you click it it
> does not give you any choices. The wizards leaves nothing to be done.
> It leaves me wondering if Mandrake-Linux is perhaps headed towards becoming
> the next Redmond clone? The command line is ManDrake-Linux's saving
> grace without it I would not be using Mandrake-Linux.
>
> The pharse "notably by avoiding use of the evil command line" must
> be
> removed.
>
> ____________________________
> NYLXS: New Yorker Free Software Users Scene
> Fair Use -
> because it's either fair use or useless....
> NYLXS is a trademark of NYLXS, Inc
--
At times the discrepency between institutions and technology becomes an
incompatibility, and then one or the other must give way.
-Allen Wheelis
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NYLXS: New Yorker Free Software Users Scene
Fair Use -
because it's either fair use or useless....
NYLXS is a trademark of NYLXS, Inc
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