> Ummm we have a couple of user groups here ... > developers/power users > ho want scriptablity > and power, casual users and newbies who want ease > of use. > A developer/power user will go gaga over the > power, flexibility, > etailed output and scriptability > that cdrecord and mkisofs provide. All sorts of > automation using > remote terminals, expect, > distributed CD burning and what not ... wow wow! > Casual users, OpenSolaris newbies including people > used to other OSes > ike, Windows, MacOSx, > Linux couldn't care less about UDF, lofi, Joliet, > Rock Ridge ... All > hey want to do is pop in a > blank CD, grab a bunch of files, drop them into a > window and voila - > hey get written with all the > correct joliet-what and rock-what formatting. And > what did you say > bout some tty thingy ... well > do you mean those little green screens with lots > of letters with > erious faced white robed guys poring > over them ... um uh oh ... well lets see wasn't > that decades ago ... > think I will go back to good ol' > Windows. > egards, > Moinak. >
Down with clueless newbies! RTFM! We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming. :-) Seriously, the next thing you know, you'll want a "wizard" or dancing paper clip or some such to step the newcomers through the choices that can't just be defaulted (like what kinds of systems do you want to be able to read this CD: Apple (Mac OS X), Solaris, Linux, Windows, ... (which says something about which format would be best for the CD)). Even that wouldn't be good enough for my aunt, who only uses a computer in place of a typewriter; when I asked her for a recipe, she typed it into (probably Word) and _mailed_ it to me. I mean, I'm no tree hugger, but _really_, is that necessary? She can't even handle Windows (not that she's dumb, but that she's _convinced_ herself she can't do a bunch of things), so what do I care if she never uses Solaris? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
