----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 11:17 AM Subject: Re: Win 98 Registry
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 08:37:22AM -0800, Nick Arnett wrote: > > > Except sendmail, whose config certainly *can* be edited with a text > > editor, but there are only three people in the world who understand > > it. ;-) > > Heh. sendmail is a mess. I abandoned it long ago. Fortunately, there are > good alternatives, qmail and exim to name two. > > > And then there's kernel configuration and building, which is plenty > > confusing. But that isn't even possible with Windows. > > It seems overwhelming at first, with so many options. But it really > isn't bad at all. Run make xconfig, the defaults are pretty good, so if > you don't know what a given option means just accept the defaults, and > change only the things you know about or want to change. The rest of it > is just a list of a few commands to type for compiling, modules, and > boot image. > This is where your idea of Linux for the masses fails miserably. Nobody - wants - to - learn - or - do - commands - anymore. If Linux cannot totally eradicate even the possible use of the command line, only geeks will use it. People do not want to learn things, they want to do things. xponent Fact maru rob
