-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Teletch�a St�phane wrote: > Le jeu 30/10/2003 � 14:20, Buchan Milne a �crit : > >>>Sorry to be against you Buchan, but as he knew there is a console >>>program in RH, he should knew there is also one in Mdk aka XFdrake ... >> >>And what if the user had never used Redhat before??? This guy has been >>using Linux on hist desktop for over a year, do we expect newbies to >>know more than this? > > Yes, but in that case, he should subscribe to MandrakeClub or buy a pack > and solve this problem with the manual or on-line.
Why should he need a manual to do this trivial thing? When last did you need a manual to do this in Windows (I'm guessing it was Windows 3.1). >>This is largely irrelevant. For a desktop OS, it is criminal to dump a >>user in a console without any help if they have just changed the >>monitor. If we can't ensure that X will come up, why should newbies use >>Mandrake over Debian? > > I agree on this point in the case you describe. I was just answering > about THIS user in particular. > > BTW, i'm not sure if we should provide such -finger in the nose- > practice that far : at the end, this is the kind of plus value one > should expect from club membership and/or pack ? So, we shouldn't be making a user-friendly linux distribution, instead we should make a user-unfriendly linux distribution, and then sell support? Sorry, but this business model is doomed. Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/oRU4rJK6UGDSBKcRAoTCAJ0QKFxC4Bxh6OXI80rsqcvv9DN1HQCgrSfj ynhNTghmZNdtZE0/ebZAmkY= =qA8h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
