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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!199.0.65.182!news-in.tiac.net!posterchild!seahag!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5j9o1q$g20@news-central.tiac.net> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <333EE698.41C67EA6@kzin.dorm.umd.edu> <3343cbbf.1091644@news.sprynet.com> <5i1216$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> <5iu4ur$26m@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: seahag.rmkhome.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970314; sun4c SunOS 4.1.4] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:170659 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39314 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... -- Rick Kelly rmk@seahag.rmkhome.com rmk@rmkhome.com <a href="http://tencats.rmkhome.com/">tencats</a>