On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:14:48AM +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote: > Jason Greenwood wrote: > >I fully understand Peter. I too have been frustrated in the past by > >CLUG's CLI leanings and lack of desktop/end user focus. I hope, that > >starting with my talk, the CLUG can begin a new era of a more balanced > >focus on all levels of Linux user/tweaker/hacker. > > The CLI (Command line interface) is the foundation. Everything else is > built on top, so to speak. Like a house, most people are interesting in > using the house, not crawling under it to look at the foundations.
Which is where the Mac OS X world is today - a small house, admittedly, with rounded corners and no sharp knives hanging around ... The foundations are sound, however, and big enough to go build a proper house on them (using fink to install all your normal open source software). Perhaps someone will come up with a full distribution-sized CD with lots of current fink stuff on it ... (not me until I get off a modem link :-) The only problem is the underlying filesystem ... HFS is case insentitive! UFS is fine, but you'll have to repartition to get one (or mount the filesystem from a disk-image file, which may not be as fast as a real partition, but isn't a bad way to do it ...) I think your point was going to be that many LUG people have been builders and carpenters, but now perhaps we need realtors as well? -jim
