The problem is if you look at this list a lot of people start
I just bought Linux Mandrake 6.0 and can't get it installed.
So I think the install still needs work.
Also still have problems with dependency's in installing software
and I installed the whole distro. I still get these cryptic messages
about files I need and it never tells you where to get these files or
what needs to be done to install it. I have about 6 programs I am
trying to install and can't install any of them.
Jeanette
----- Original Message -----
From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 4:31 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux for home consumers?
> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Richard Salts wrote:
>
> > Somebody was saying to me that he believed Linux was a good corporate
tool
> > but not a good op system for home use because of it's steep learning
curve.
>
> I disagree.
> Linux is more powerful, not more difficult, than Windows.
>
> If people are telling you Linux is stuff like
> find / -name "*.txt" -exec perl -p -i -e "s/Blah/blah/" {} &>/dev/null \;
> they're ignoring the fact that you probably won't need to know this and
> you won't need to understand what it does.
> This particular thing is a shell command saying 'find all files ending on
> .txt, then search them for occurences of "Blah" and replace them with
> "blah"'. Yes, it does look cryptic for a beginner - but a beginner won't
> need it and it's something you definitely can't do that easily in Windows
> or DOS. And saying Windows is easy because there's a number of things it
> just can't do is quite odd ("Notepad is better than WordPerfect because it
> doesn't have all the complicated settings I don't understand and won't
> ever use!!!").
>
> You can do pretty much everything a home user will need in the graphical
> interfaces, KDE and GNOME. They are somewhat different from Windows, but
> not more difficult.
>
> LLaP
> bero
>
> --
> Tired of waiting for Windows 2000?
> STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
>
>
