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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 14 Apr 1997 20:44:11 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5iu4ur$26m@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <333EE698.41C67EA6@kzin.dorm.umd.edu> <3343cbbf.1091644@news.sprynet.com> <5i1216$gc4$1@news3.realtime.net> <33457087.6003026@news.sprynet.com> <5i2ahu$1mi@twin.wasatch.com> <5i3f1a$nc5@hermes.synopsys.com> <5i78ee$bcs@twin.wasatch.com> <3347c5d8.749407980@news.diac.com> <5i8vph$kj4@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:170013 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39137 wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) wrote: > As a matter of preference, I tend to use the text based version of SMIT > (smitty) over the GUI one. Both do the same things, but the GUI one feels > a bit clunky to me (the only real difference is that the GUI one gives > you nice overlapping windows and a little animated man 'running' whenever > a command is in progress (he falls down on his face if the command fails > too :)). The sad thing is that they do reload the pixmap into the Xserver over and over again. This makes it really clunky over a 14.4 modem (which i tried for grins :). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)