"Vanco, Donald" wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Herman Van Keer (softouch) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Tima Vaisburd wrote:
> > > Just a small comment. I'm expecting from a good distribution
> > > like Linux Mandrake not only stability, performance
> > > and up-to-date programs, but also a kind of advise from the
> > experts -
> > > which programs to learn and use.
> > >
> >
> > I agree on statement one: stability, performance in a distribution.
> >
> > Non on statement two: the choice should be yours. The only issue for a
> > distribution should be stability.
> > I do not think they should advice you what to use...
> And this is precisely why such distributions will never replace
> Windows in the "average" home.
That'll be allways a big issue. You can hardly compare a Linux operating system
with DOS/Windoze. And that will *allways* make it difficult for an 'average
home user', or you would need a distribution with only the minimum install,
closed and sealed.
Kind of 'Windows-install' Linux: no thinking, clicking and p(r)laying... ;-)
And still having difficulties, because Linux is multi-'whatever'. Which is too
much for an 'average user'. And please: I am not a Linux-guru !!
> with Linux I've just loaded Mandrake 6.1 for the 3rd time, and still ended
> up with a Vietnamese Terminal, a Kanji Terminal, 2 mail clients, 2 IRC
> clients, and a newsreader that I can say with 100% certainty I did not
> select for install.
This is what *NOT* should happen with a distribution!!!
I remember one of my first installs, (Slackware), where you could choose for a
minimal install (even without X-windows !!)
IMHO: the best way for a distribution :
-First: 'That's your minimum'
-Afterwards: and now 'What do you want more?'
> I really like choices, but sometimes, given enough food, "lower life
> forms" (relative newbies like myself) will gorge themselves to death.....
> Red Hat 6.1 will be out soon in lots of new flavors, including a stripped
> out version. It will be interesting to see what it holds....
Maybe the 'Windows-install' version, I told you about ;-)
For a start I would like it very much to have a Linux install protected
(secured), rather than way-open...
Luckily I got some real experts, who pointed out that my server was wide-open
to the world.....
Herman
