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Posted Feb 2, 2011 23:13 UTC (Wed) by jeremiah (subscriber, #1221)In reply to: Plain Text by HelloWorld
Parent article: LCA: Lessons from 30 years of Sendmail
In this case, were talking remote Linux boxes on non-broad-band connections. So seriously vi is all we have sometimes. Doesn't mean I don't also have a nice GUI front end to things, when it's an option. Things are also written so that the data can be stored in a DB if the admin chooses. But the default is to assume we are in a worst case scenario, until proven otherwise. Also makes it lighter weight. Of course there is Berkley DB which is pretty light. Awe who knows. There's never a single correct solution for everyone, all you can do is make a lot of things optional, and spend a lot of time thinking about what the best defaults are for the majority of people.