Il lun, 2003-06-30 alle 21:35, Zack Gilburd ha scritto:
> > > Please be careful with converting people... Linux is not for everyone. :)
> >
> > It should be, and I think we're very close. :)
> >
> > Regards.
> 
> It should be: maybe.  Are we close?  No.  The day my grandmother can get over 
> the learning curve of managing her own Gentoo box, then we're "close."
> 
IMHO your grandma shouldn't get a gentoo linux, rather I'd point her
towards Mandrake and drakrpm. She would be able to install e uninstall
properly as well, if not even better, as on windoze 

> I do not entirely agree with the opinion that it should be, however.  I do not 
> want Linux to be so user friendly that I can no longer use it properly (think 
> Redhat, Mandrake, et al).

Goof thing about linux is that you can choose. It exists in many
falvours, it's up to you choosing the one you prefer. "Using it
properly", often refers to managing servers which is a differnt issue
than using it as a desktop. Gentoo IMO is a distro for a power user,
having to deal with compilations flags, and things like these.


> I still believe Linux is _not_ for everyone and will never be for everyone.  
> There is a difference between being a Linux zealot and a Linux enthusiast.  I 
> am the latter.

Perhaps it isn't already for everyone (if only hardware houses would
release native drivers for all their products...) but I still think
we're on the right way and soon we will have a desktop breakthrough of
linux.

Regards


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