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From: Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 19 Apr 1997 06:17:30 GMT
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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In comp.os.linux.misc J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
: 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 :).
The little guy must be staggering on a 14.4k modem. :-)
I work with AIX 3.2.5, 4.1.4, and 4.2. What I really like is how they are
continually changing the SMIT interface...
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Rick Kelly rmk@seahag.rmkhome.com rmk@rmkhome.com
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