will hill wrote: >The only thing that bugged me was how fast we were to judge Linux and ho= w forgiving we were of M$. We assumed that the Windoze box would connec= t to Eatel, though we saw little more than a "generic pci controller" rec= ognized. This site shows that Windows autodialing is not always auto, h= ttp://www.eatel.net/techsupp/inetfaq.htm We do not know what the Windoz= e system would have done given unrecognized hardware, though we know that= newer devices often don't "support" older M$ operating systems. The st= ock answer to that is to tell the user that they need a new OS or an olde= r modem. When a windoze system gets hosed up like that people do a reins= tall without even thinking about it. The Linux system, though confused b= y dishonest hardware, never crashed or needed additional software that mi= ght not be available in the future. While that might not be graceful eno= ugh, we never gave the wizard a chance to fix it's own configuration file= s given a change in hardware. Heck, we ! >could have done a complete reinstall without losing personal data if /ho= me was it's own partition. I feel guilty for letting high expectations= for free software get in the way of demonstrating some of it's strengths= =2E > =20 > One thing that I can say about RH8 is that the guis for configuring=20 network connections, system settings, etc. ACTUALLY WORK the way they=20 are supposed to now. I have even gotten lazy and stopped doing the=20 system configuration via vi. The other day, a visiting sysadmin was=20 here from Caltech and was trying to add my network attached HP printer=20 to his RH8 laptop. He did it by hand and it did not work. He came and=20 asked me what he should do. I told him use the damn gui! That felt=20 nice to be able to tell someone that and actually have it work on a=20 linux system. He used the gui and instantly a test page came out of the =
high end printer.... Moral is, I think we are getting close to ready for primetime folks! Shannon >Overall, it was a good meeting and nice work under pressure John! I'm s= orry if we got in your way with our negative comments. > >On 2003.03.26 08:44 Dustin Puryear wrote: > =20 > >>I personally made a few comments myself. Most notably I said that we sh= ould=20 >>just throw Windows on the box. Sorry if that grated on you, but it was = >>humor. You have to live it. Also, to be frank here, if Linux wants to b= e=20 >>known as the better OS then it needs to get that kind of stuff straight= =2E If=20 >>Linux or Linux-based software bombs out over weird modems then there is= a=20 >>problem. The wizard should have gracefully recovered. >> >> >> =20 >> > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > =20 >
