Matt Graham wrote: > Alan Dayley : >> Randy Melder wrote: >>> Sounds like Kurt would be better off with Windows... >>> Whooops! Did I say that?!? >> Kurt may be too modest so I'll post this for him >> http://people.kde.org/kurt.html > > Another Yooper in the desert! Who would've thunk it, eh? > (I know MTU well, though I went to U of M.) Kurt may > remember Neomaize, Apple Man, Monsoon, and Iconoclast if > he was on the Keeweenaw BBS scene at the appropriate time. > Or not. > > Anyway: I was never very impressed with any of the > pointy-clicky tools like YaST. Most of the time, I was > annoyed at their inflexibility. However, different people > have different needs, and a userspace programmer may have > different priorities than a guy like me. > > Tony E - Jaraeth wrote: >> As a general rule, I don't use a shell script I didn't >> write. > > ...so you don't compile anything from source, and your > $LESSOPEN is unset. Right? > Technically, you just backed me into a corner ;) But alas, this is the reason so many of us love OSS... we can hack it and see what it's doing. In that very same spirit, yes, I/we can check out the scripts that RedHat use such as 'system-config-network', and tweak to my hearts content. My point, and thus my personal preference, is to configure my systems by hand, that is, network settings, hostname, BIND/dns, Samba, etc. I do compile a lot of software by hand (and thus why Gentoo & Slackware are my two favorite distro's) while I also have used 'rpmbuild' and downloaded rpm's using yum's many repositories for any RedHat based distro's I use. I digress though, if one truly was ultra paranoid, one would have to inspect & analyze all software prior to compiling it, and would have to build their own distribution. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ :) ~ Tony E --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss