> 
> Someone said to me that, in his opinion, Linux was not yet ready for home
> consumer use.
Then if i may be so bold as to say, your friend is very ill informed.

>  It is intended, he believes, more for corporate use and for
> those who have extensive computer experience than for home use because of
> the steep learning curve that peoople like myself are encountering when
> trying to use it.

The curve is not so steep now a days, Redhat has a very nice windows type of
click and go interface, to coin a phrase.

> 
> What does the membership of this list think of this viewpoint?  Are there
> any list members besides myself who are endeavoring to use this op system
> at home?

I for one _never_ want to use a dos computer for any other reason than my
boss telling me that i have to, at home i have used linux just about from
the start.

> 
> I am interested in what the list subscribers think of this statement.  Do
> you think Linux, like Red Hat 6.0 is more of a system to be more used at
> the office or can consumers get in on using Linux, too?
> 

To say completly the opposite would be an over statemant, however i would
_stronly_ advise the use of redhat or what ever distro you choose, and tell
you friend not to talk about things which he obviously has very little
knowlage of.


> 
> Richard 
> 


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