> From: Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > 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. Which isn't going to happen. Read this (its long): http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
