--- Matt Stamm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: "Alexey Eremenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:14:15 +0200 > > >Well, this article point at two well-known problems: cross-distro > >packaging and cross-distro compatibility. Those problems are old as a > >linux world. Which doesn't prevents my father and mother use Linux > >successfully.
... snip ... > He makes a valid point. From the average user's point > of view, some things tend to install easier with Windows. > > My most recent experience, went to a website that required > flash-player 9. On windows the download and install > went smooth. On my linux suse-10 the install didn't go > as smooth, the rpm provided by Adobe installed the plugin > in the wrong place, something like /usr/..., but it > was supposed to go /opt/MozillaFirefox/.. Problem installs/upgrades are not confined to linux - not all Windows upgrades go smoothly. At school I tried to get Quicktime updated for FF and still have yet to figure out how to fix it so something happens other than seeing the big Q with a ? mark in it. However, because of the Q-time problem in FF my teachers have gone back to using IE. I have both SUSE 10.2 and Mepis 6.0 running on machines at home and have no problem with them in this regard. StephenW -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
