[TriLUG] good newbie book

[Michael A. McLean]

Christian J Hedemark wrote:
> 
> Beth said:
> > It is gone. GNOME has all these config tools in Nautilus now. User Manager
> > (redhat-config-users) is there for linuxconf type things.
> 
> Ewwwww.  I know it is tacky for me to criticize Red Hat while I'm openly
> seeking employment there, but this favoritism towards Gnome is another
> turnoff.  When a key component of the OS gets moved to one desktop
> environment, I think that is a Bad Thing.  I know you're not to blame for
> that and I'm not shooting the messenger.
> 
> Linuxconf had something going for it in that you could run it from a VT100
> console, xterm, any X Windows environment, web interface, etc.  Requiring
> Gnome or a subset of Gnome to be installed to use a core system tool is sort
> of, well, a downgrade in features from where I sit.

There are a number of programs in the system folder of the gnome menu. 
Some of these also appear in the Server Configuration and System
Settings folders of Nautilus's start-here page.  The printer
configuration comes in gui and tui flavors, perhaps others will follow
suit?

For me, I'm happy using man and vi to do most of my configuration.