"Day Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] I got BSD 4.1.1, Corel 2.1, Debian 2.2, Mandrk 7, > and Redhat 5.2 & 7.2. The 7.2 I got most recently, and it is a > vast improvement over the first distro I tried, rh 5.2, but all > of them stop for a logon screen. I'd prefer an option, that if > I wanted root, I'd havta do ctrl-alt-F1. And yeah, I'll prolly > get around to trying slackware and suse too.
Linux or BSD do provide single user mode, but it's not meant for running apps and general purpose tasks. Guess what? It's NOT DOS. It's not SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE DOS. It is an ALTERNATIVE TO (and thus "different" by definition than) DOS! And guess what else? Not every blasted board you drag out of your closet is guaranteed to work! Who said it would? Gang, I think it's time we all just give up on trying to teach Day new tricks. If it doesn't act just like DOS, he's not interested. The books are either too thick or too thin, or it's too technical or too dumbed down. He knows DOS, he only likes DOS, he should just stick to DOS and quit making his own shortcomings out to be some limitation of Linux, BSD or any other OS. In every case, the limitations he has cited have either been due to his lack of understanding, or unwillingness to do things even a little bit differently than he has in the past. And the concept of using SUPPORTED hardware seems to be beyond what he's willing to stoop to. If you want the install to be painless and simple (aka "dumbed down"), use a suitable distribution (i.e. RedHat or Mandrake) ON SUPPORTED HARDWARE. If you want fine control and the ability to know exactly what goes on your system (aka. "too technical"), use Debian or Slackware, and BE PREPARED TO SPEND SOME TIME GETTING SPECIFIC HARDWARE TO WORK. And for God's sake, don't try to tell us the booskstores aren't stocked with titles like "Linux for Dummies". Quit being so damned cheap and either buy some, or take a bit of time to read on the web before spouting more incorrect information. If ever single alternative OS and distribution is "too complex", the constant in the equation is the user. - Bob To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
