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. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/