> At least he's running an OS where things like this can be figured > out. No registry editing necessary, just the basics:
Funny. I was thinking that this install procedure was a stupid confusing waste of time, and that it's certainly easier on windows. I installed in on my box by typing "emerge -U mozilla-firefox". I believe this would be the easiest solution since it doesn't require him to already have another browser installed so that he can retrieve it (sure it'll be available for FTP somewhere, or scp, or whatever, but realistically, using the Distro's own tools, RH, Suse, etc are all starting to look archaic. Yast is a 6 out of 10 app. It's pretty good once you figure out where the repository is, and get it working, but that always seems to be more complicated than it should be. Yast never quite gets it right if you make changes outside YAST either, and that frustrates me, cause it's always a bit scary to fire it up, and wonder if some change you made at the CLI will be wiped out in the process. I have hope for it, but it needs to have a default repository, or better, (like Gentoo), it should have a list of 100 mirrors, and test each to find which is the fastest for your individual setup, and then choose the 5 best as it's preferred sites. Then, it just needs to respect non-YAST changes better. So Suse might get it right, eventually. There's no hope at all for Red Hat, in my opinion, but I readily admit, that's a heavily biased opinion with little legitimate basis. Debian, which I poked fun at already this week, deserves the biggest pat on the back, because apt-get is another example of making things easy. I've heard horror stories about apt, but personally, I've never experienced them. When I think Debian, I think Awesome distro, but just too slow moving to really be useful to anyone. Which is really why Gentoo seems to have taken over for it. If Debian had decent install instructions 5 years ago, or even made a half hearted effort to use current packages, I don't really believe Gentoo would even exist. The funny part is, Debian seems to be proud of that heritage. I just don't get it. Kev. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
