[rescue] Just a thought - what would be a good starter SPARC system these days?

[Steve Sandau]

I think what it comes down to is that to be an effective administrator,
one needs to know *all* the tools, text and GUI. I think that makes the
most effective administrator. Having a choice of how to do something is
usually helpful.

Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:31:07AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > Hmm.  I was assuming in this day and age that a company could afford at
> > least one graphical workstation for their admins to work at.  Not to say
> > that text still isn't a better way to go but still...
> 
> yes, I have a sunblade 100 on my desk, but 99% of system admin tasks here
> are done either through telnet/ssh sessions or an Aura 9600 baud serial
> console server.  The last time I used X for actually adminning a box
> (versus running Netscpae, etc) was using the Veritas GUI about a week ago.
> 
> Bill
> 
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