Quoting Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Thomas Charron wrote:
> > Now, if properly setup for an end user, it's a different story. My
> wife, and
> > even 5 year old son, can easily use KDE or Gnome, and they do regularly..
> They
> > can do practically anything as an end user.
> Precisely. As for installing packages, they can be trained how to do that
> too. GnoRPM or KDE's version are very easy to use. They just need to be
> shown how. What else does a typical end user need to do?
Well, most *like* the idea of simply double clicking on an exe, and breezing
thru the default, untill 'Finish'. The one hurdle I see here is administrative
access to a machine. I'd love to see RPM and/or dpkg start to install stuff
under an individuals home directory, aka, /bin, etc, when installed by a normal
user, and have some sort of setting that would allow anyone to run it. I'm not
sure how this would work, and maintain the machine correctly.
> The one area that's tough is setting up PPP and/or cable modem connection.
> But then, I've run into a lot of people (even technical ones) that had
> trouble doing this on Windows too. And even that may have come a long
> way... I don't use any of the GUI tools to set up my connections, so I
> don't know how good they are. Someone else can comment.
Yep.. Linuxconf is wonderful for this sort of thing, which I said earlier
needs to be extended.
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