>Linux still have a long way to go, compared to where microsoft is... So, >learn from the strength of microsoft, and combine both to win ppl over... >and not argue among urselves, and accomplish nothing except to maybe plant >seeds of disunity... >If Linux really rise up to the occasion, I am willing to bundle linux as the >OS in OEM computer... but that is Linux rise up to the occasion. >
That may be true, but you seem to indicate that it is not user-friendly at all yet, which is hardly the case. I'm not sure how long you've been using some version of linux, but the first one I installed was slackware 2.5 -- it was hardly 'user-friendly' at that point. Want to add a user? Well, you better learn the adduser command. Want to configure bind, apache, or a host of other servers? Better learn to edit the configuration files directly. Want to have networking available? re-compile the kernel. Want to use kde or gnome? Compile them. Slackware was certainly not user friendly -- at least, much less so than things are today. Basically anything that you wanted to do, you had to compile / configure by hand from the command line, since there were virtually no pre-compiled binaries. Today, you've got distributions like Redhat and Mandrake where you can configure virtually everything on the system from a GUI. You don't even have to compile most software anymore -- you just go to rpmdrake or any of the other rpm guis, select a package that you want to install, and it takes care of the rest of it for you. To me, that is at least as user friendly as Windows is, in some cases even more so. -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
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