On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Indranil Das Gupta wrote:
> Don't agreed completely. The H/w detection part *has* improved in a big
> way over RHL 5.2. Blaming the s/w is the most common knee-jerk reaction
> in most of us. But often the culprits are to be found in the guise of
> el-cheapo mobos, flacky vid cards, old bioses, xyz-compatible cards that
> are not really *that* "compatible" ;-)
It is interesting, but I've installed a fair number of MS-DOS, AmigaDOS,
*BSD, Windows 3.11, Windows 95/98 and Redhat 5.2/6.0. Of these operating
systems, if I average over the variety of hardware I have installed each
on, RedHat 6.0 was the easiest.
Comparing OS Installation to what an 'average user' is familiar with is
not relevant as the 'average user' would not be competant enough to
install any OS on hardware that wasn't very specifically taylored for that
OS (And even then it would be too complex for many).
Compare apples to apples here: If your computer came pre-installed with
Linux and you had to install MS-Windows on your own, everyone would be
talking about how hard it was to install Windows....
Did someone not post that humour about "If Operating Systems were like
Airlines" joke here? And you had to do WHAT with your seat?
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Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://russell.flora.org/work/>
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