Zack Gilburd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ]
> Amen. Sysadmins are the downfall of both operating systems. > Unfortunately, it's a lot easier to get behind in patches (unless > you are using some nifty package management like portage ;)) in a > Linux distribution than it is in Windows 2003, for example. almost every modern distro has an online update tool. I'd like to actually hear about one that _doesn't_ have this. with that being said, with regards to parents, family or friends, most of the people I know come in two categories. they either know what they're doing and run linux just fine, or they don't know what they're doing and need a lot of help anyway. in which case I can help people with linux, but not with Windows. hence, people around me generally run linux. my father does however run Windows -- mostly because he's a manager who deals with PowerPoint, Excel and Word. last time I worked with him though, his staff ran Linux out of choice and he was fine with that. he also quotes well, sends plain text emails and makes it rather painless to communicate with him. all servers and such things around him tend to run linux though. :-) my father also occasionally complains about Windows Update and "bug fixes" or "service patches" that breaks things. when this happens with Gentoo with people I know ssh is usually all the cure we need. at ork[0] we only have linux-boxen, and I must admit it's a nice feeling when a 60-something year old woman sends a mail and wonders why Evolution won't sync her palmpilot anymore. :-) (the answer is usually that pam.d and console.perms aren't friends anymore. we run RedHat at ork[0].) [ ... ] -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
