12 Jan
2001
12 Jan
'01
11 a.m.
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