Howdy,
I tried to resist but this is so important that I MUST express my view.NTAC.
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] comments
you say: "I'd rather focus on security, stability, and power with
useability being my smallest concern in a distro."
I say: Jeez, bud, what do you think USABILITY actually is???
you say: "Just my 2 cents - don't take me too seriously I'm a pessemist. ;)
"
I say: you are not a pessimist - you're confused :). The issue in the post
was about INSTALL ability.
Consider this.
You want a paper route. You want to use a bicycle to deliver the papers, but
you don't know how to ride a bicycle. Others have told you how great it is,
how easy it is, how you will never forget how to do it once you learn. Some
have even explained in detail how to do it. You've read books.
But every time you get on a bike, the bike falls down and you fall off.
How are you going to learn to ride a bike if you can't even stay up on it
long enough to get anywhere?
?
The point being that the install of Linux -via a distribution- must be so
trivial that even someone who can't learn to ride a bike can do it.
Once it's installed, the newbie* will learn how to use it...or not -IDC.
I personally think that MandrakeSoft has the best lead towards that goal.
Unfortunately, it's not there yet. If you doubt the veracity of that, visit
the alt.os.linux.mandrake newsgroup. Almost all the posts that are there
are about one subject and one subject only - installation. The posts'
titles vary but it's almost always the same problem: how do I get this to
work ? - meaning installed properly.
Fixing the main installation of the OS and the fundamental peripherals so
that it cannot crash and burn, providing real -valuable- verbose feedback
about the problem the installation is having regardless of the cause of the
problem that makes the installation choke or die, and making it impossible
to destroy partitions or MBR of any other currently installed OS should be,
imho, the number one focus for all distributions of Linux. A monumental but
not impossible task which, I think, could be achieved by the LM 8.0 release
some time next year.
Of course, I have a pretty high opinion of these folks at MandrakeSoft. (
even if they do eat snails (~: )
Ok, I said my piece- I'll go away now.
lll
???
~
*Newbie does not mean stupid.
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