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From: ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar (Roberto Alsina)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 7 Apr 1997 17:33:41 GMT
Organization: Universidad Nacional de San Luis - Argentina
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In article <3347c5d8.749407980@news.diac.com>, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
>bobh@wasatch.com (Bob Hauck) wrote:
>
>>The grain of truth in what you're saying is that if Linux had some
>>nice GUI configuration utilities it would be more approachable for
>>newbies. I'm all for that, and several groups are working on it
>>(e.g. the Control Panel in Red Hat). Just don't take away the text
>>configuration option! Anybody who suggests building a Registry for
>>Linux should be shot.
>
>I agree. On that note, has anyone used SAM (HP-UX) or SMIT (AIX). I
>haven't used much of either, but it seems to me in this case a
>commercial Unix has the lead over us (whether Linux or FreeBSD).
>Anyone who knows more about SAM or SMIT care to comment? Do they even
>qualify for this discussion?
I use SMIT (on AIX 4.1) every day. I love it. And then I hate it. The
damn thing is driving me to schizophrenia (sp?).
It's cool to manage, say, the volume sets. But the volume manager is better.
It's ugly to manage users (the command line is better for batchs of work,
and the user manager is better for small things).
It's the only "supported" way to manage NFS (it overwrites the exports
file), and it's quite good at it.
It's very good for all those small things you never remember.
Some times it doesn't do things, and it's a pain: for example, say you
install bash.
You obviously try to change your default shell to it, because ksh
vi-emulation mode is kinda ugly.
bash is not in the list of shells SMIT gives.
You say, "Of course, I have to add it to /etc/shells, or something".
SMIT doesn't have a "add new shell" command.
You wade through *lots* off docs, until you found something like "add the
shell's full path in the 'shells' stanza of the
/etc/something/other/BcvXRT.piy file".
You do it.
It's on the menu now, and you do it.
SMIT doesn't have anything like the "runlevel editor" in RedHat, for example.
IMHO SMIT falls short if you wanted a program that let you manage your
system whitout fixing text files by hand. It's nice to be able to
delegate some small things, though.
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