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......Tom "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."
Unix IS user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:23:42 +0000 ()
From: Michael George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bill Gates, Linux, and Other things
> > So let's not compare installing and configuring Linux from scratch to
> > walking up to a Win95 system configured by experts, then delivered.
> >
> > What do you think would happen if you gave a casual Win95 user a Win95
> > CD-ROM and an unformatted hard disk? They'd have just as much of an uphill
> > battle as casual users do with Linux.
>
> Yup!! They sure would, I have seen it!!
I have *done* it, and I consider myself computer semi-literate! It's a real
pain in the butt. Oh, and if you want it to run in DOS mode with access to
the sound card, CD-ROM, video, and all that, you'd better be prepared to spend
some time at it and you'd better *really* know what you're looking for.
My brother has NASCAR Racing 2, which will run under the DOS (7?) which is
with Win '95. But, we found there's a difference between rebooting to DOS
mode and selecting the MS-DOS desktop icon. And then you can start
configuring the system with a boot floppy disk...
Junk, junk, junk...
-Michael
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