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Green GUI, Forest for the Trees. . .
By chris.maxcer
Created Jun 26 2008 - 22:01

"So we're back to the 'native GUI' argument again, eh? Yeah that's the only reason things are the way they are. Leave it to this group to take a nice anniversary deal and flip it into yet another diatribe about how bad off we are. It has nothing to do with a dedicated but nonetheless stuck-in-the-past group of people who can't see the forest for the trees. How many Linux/UNIX admins do you know who use only a GUI to access their systems? LOL Howabout mainframes? Seriously the GUI thing is such a lame argument with so many options out there to code to a browser. Tell me, with a native OS GUI, how would you present that to the user since that's what ultimately matters? An admin who requires there be a GUI on the system itself isn't much of an admin." -- Lerxst *Read more... [1]

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