check the message archive last year...i believe that we discussed this
some.
from my viewpoint (which many ppl dislike) this is a HORRIBLE turn to ne
linux movement.
at USAExpress.net i get about one call a week from a clueless person.
"i hate linux!!! it totally trashed all my windows files. and then once i
got it installed i couldn't use my USB printer. don't buy linux...its
horrible!"
and you try to explain what the error existes between keyboard and chair
(in a nice way) and they won't listen. they tell thier firends this and
so it goes on.
they (linux manf) should at least put in a directory of LUGS or something
that is a realy help for a newbie.
when i started this business i used to bug a fellow admin at another
ISP with a thousand and two apache, sendmail and general linux questions.
I didn't call redhat (I don't run redhack i run debian, so i have nobody
to call...but you get the point) and sit on the phone with them for 2
hours trying to get sendmail to allow my users to send mail.
Linux isn't regular software...its for people who have a SEMI clue what
thier doing. not for my grandmother :-)
~kurth
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Tod Hagan wrote:
> I was in the Wal-Mart superstore in Salem and noticed that three
> different Linux packages were stocked: Mandrake 8.0 was in the "New"
> section, Mandrake 7.2[?] was nicely displayed right next to Windows
> ME, and an unspecified Red Hat version was stored up top, out of
> reach.
>
> I don't visit Wal-Mart stores often -- is the stocking of Linux a
> recent development?
>
> Having Linux so prominently displayed at Wal-Mart will go a long ways
> towards raising name recognition with the general public.
>
> --
> Tod Hagan
> Campton, NH
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