12 Jan
2001
12 Jan
'01
9:57 p.m.
I take an aside to this. The current crop of BSD and
Linux flavored unix
like
OSs seem to be as easy to install as W9x. With one caveat, the unix
camp is steeped in 30+ years of unix culture. It is this culture that
makes
if difficult as it's simply different! If you get past the difference
and can adopt
it's cultural language over prior biases it's fairly forthright and
simple to install.
Then again I say this as W95 was a royal PITA the first time compared to
VMS and other DEC OSs I was familiar with. Then again creating a BIOS
for CP/M was pretty intimidating at one time too.
Allison
It all depends on the person. I can install things such as Linux, OpenBSD,
Solaris, OpenVMS, MacOS and RT-11 almost with my eyes closed, and the hardest
part is waiting for the software to move from CD to HD (yes, even with RT-11).
With any Windows variant I seem to have to dedicate a minimum of one day to
cursing and fighting the garbage!
Zane