On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Les Mikesell wrote:
I'm not sure how someone starting today would find the core tool set (which is almost unchanged today except for the GNU options on some commands and the addition of perl) or where to start with man/google. Or if these even matter any more now that there are monolithic GUIs to do most common operations and computers are fast enough to run them.
A low barrier to entry is great for development and testing but horrible for production.
A GUI or other framework that can assist getting a service up and running quickly is a great help; the developer or admin and his customer(s) can quickly understand its applicability to the task at hand.
Moving that service into production, however, requires a different understanding: risk assessment, scalability, configuration boundaries, etc. The rapid-development tool rarely provides such insight, with predicatable consequences in production.