Tony, your ESR response post on Slashdot.

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That's where MS gets it right. They have simple interfaces for everything. Ever try to set up a DHCP server for a subnet, let along multiple subnets, and set different lease times by MAC address? Or even try and set up an HP Laserjet over the network for remote communication? I can do either without touching text files under Win2K.

However, Linuxconf is getting there, but I still won't use it to configure my networks at all. It screws a lot up still, and I feel bad that I don't have the time I want to go in there and debug it all.

On the other hand, I am so looking forward to OS X. I want to see what they do for a user-friendly interface to UNIX based on the fact that I got an iMac DV for testing today. I have never seen such an easy machine to configure for a LAN. It beats Windows 2000 hands down, and that's a major compliment (and my metric for configuration).

Then again, I'm buying a G4 to run OS X on, so that won't be much of an issue

Mitch