> let's face a simple fact, if you do not have the entire directory > structure memorised, then mc or similar is something that speeds up the > process of navigating in console to
that's what [tab][tab] is for. > " > > begin fixing up Mandrake installation errors, navigating around to > > edit conf files inappropriately created by the installer, preventing X > > from working, HPFS and network from being accessible, > " hmm. I really think fixing the install problems is a better path to follow. I've spent the last two days installing win2k on a box which has been running debian happily for years -- I really believe there is a market for telling people they can be surfing the web, sending email, writing letters in half an hour with linux, and then 2 seconds later in the banner ad it would say "no, really!" > and is going to be used by a lot of people, not just those vocal about > it. ( ratio is frequently 10:1 where 10 say nothing for every 1 says > something ) something I'd really like to see in mandrake (well, in linux) is a daemon that monitors how frequently I use the software on my computer. It would need patches in glibc probably, and it would need to be optional, but it has two really big advantages: 1. People like me who are always installing new stuff, using it for a week and then forgetting about it have a way to easily find stuff to delete. The package management system is great for installing, but I just don't know where my hard disk space goes. 2. It would (again, optionally) give users a really effective way to say which software should be in mandrake -- an option (set at install time) to send this information to mandrake each time urpmi runs would mean that not only would people be able to vote on which software they like the best, but which software they're actually *using* the most. In some sense at least, this is the software that should be included with mandrake. But microsoft may have a patent on the idea, I don't know. The overhead wouldn't be huge, it would need to track calls to the various exec derivatives, which wouldn't get called that frequently. my 2c James.
