12 Jan
2001
12 Jan
'01
11:39 a.m.
problem is ... you STILL have to deal with the OS. Moreover, there are few
"nice-n-easy" applications for doing what's considered "useful
work" in most
environments. What's more, the general trend in the Non-commercial
(GNU/LINUX/... ) environment seems to be toward "good enough" and not toward
getting it right.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire(a)neurotica.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: Nuke Richmond
On January 12, W.B.(Wim) Hofman wrote:
> Can you expect to say to a housewife : This is a Linux cd. Install it on
> this computer and I expect you to have looked at these Internet sites by
> tomorrow morning? It would have to be some housewife!! Linux needs far
to
much work
still to make it fit for the masses.
I dunno, man. I'm a NetBSD person myself, and not a Linux fanatic,
but I installed DeadRat 6.2 on a machine a few days ago...it was
quick and painless, bordering on trivial.
Problem is, though...It was easier for me because it was going into
an existing network, so all I had to do was assign it an IP address
and be done with it. The average housewife will have to set up PPP,
which adds quite a bit of work.
In my opinion, based on this latest installation...if someone can
figure out how to build a PPP setup system that's generic enough to be
built into the regular installer, then installing Linux (well, RedHat
Linux specifically, it's the only distribution I've used recently
[except Storm Linux, which I really liked]) really will be as easy and
pedestrian as WinDoze.
-Dave McGuire