On 14-Jan-97 Johann Spies wrote:
As a traditional DOS-user who does not like Windows I have been trying out
Linux for the past few months and I am impressed
escpecially with LaTeX (I use TeTeX because of problems with the debian
LaTeX packages I experienced), Emacs, lynx and pine.
What sort of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have felt for some time that a lot of people are
getting the wrong idea about Linux. I don't think linux is intended
to be a suitable replacement OS for computer illiterates and other
people who want to put no work into their system, and I hope linux
Orn E. Hansen wrote:
What Im driving at is... for a writer, make an environment
suitable for writers... and for an office worker set up an
environment for an office worker... each can be based on a
common os... but to try and create a one setup to serve
all... will only fail
While watching the discussion concerning dselect that went on
a while back it occured to me the deselect may not be the best
place to implement role based system configuration (a setup
based on what the intended user will be doing). It seems to
me that dpkg should (already) support recursive
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Johann Spies wrote:
able to encourage them if Linux become more user friendly. Most computer
users are computer illiterates and the program user-interfaces must
overcome that problem.
This is not directed at Johann or anyone else in particular. In fact,
this message
Hylafax is actually quite easy to setup... but you have to run a program
called faxsetup... this program runs a configuration checkup to verify that
the program can run and starts the server. It supports class1 modems.
To add a modem, you then use 'faxaddmodem' which asks a series of
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have felt for some time that a lot of people are
getting the wrong idea about Linux. I don't think linux is intended
to be a suitable replacement OS for computer illiterates and other
people who want to put no work into their system, and I hope
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Ami Ganguli wrote:
What will the user do in 3 months
when something goes wrong (as things do inevitably happen)? He or she
might not even know where to begin looking let alone be able to fix
the problem.
The same thing the user would do with Win95. Call somebody
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Johann Spies wrote:
able to encourage them if Linux become more user friendly. Most computer
users are computer illiterates and the program user-interfaces must
overcome that problem.
I don't think linux is intended to
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