Changing IP Addresses
Marvin Bellamy
Marvin.Bellamy at innovision.com
Mon Feb 4 22:38:55 CST 2002
Then, Windows serves a role that Linux should/can not serve by providing
user-stupid interfaces that would make a Linux distro too cumbersome?
Taken a step further, then M$ should be lauded for bringing the desktop
to the average schmoe? This is something I don't agree with in the
Linux community. There's so much talk about the downfall of M$ to
Linux/Open Source, but there seem to be some huge tracts of land that
the Penguin dare not cross. Is it or is it not a goal for the Linux
community to make Linux an alternative to Windoze for the average
consumer (my !L337 mom, for example)? I stress the *average* consumer.
Brian Densmore wrote:
>>From: JD Runyan
>>
>>
>>On Mon, Feb , at 01:30:13PM -0600, Brian Densmore wrote:
>>
>>><warning: may contain rantings>
>>>
>>>>...
>>>>
>>GUI tools are what are required for the average user to
>>configure their machine.
>>There are limits to what you can do effectively with these
>>tools.
>>
>Excellent points!
>
>> I avoid
>>mandrake, redhat, and
>>many of the other distros for servers, because they are not
>>good candidates.
>>They tend to alter the default kernel, and libc
>>configurations too much.
>>
>I had (almost) no problem with Mandrake as a web server
>It took me a while to figure out how to not install X and KDE and Gnome,
>but I did manage. Although I think a stray library or two made it in ;')
>
>>Of course creating flavors that are more user friendly makes
>>sense. There
>>just should be no edict that all the versions meet that
>>qualification.
>>
>no argument here, but it could also be different configurations in the
>same distro.
>
>>already seeing a need to merge frame-buffer graphics into the
>>Kernel to achieve
>>the GUI speeds windows gets for games. This is a necessary
>>evil of sorts.
>>
>Ahh, but we can also not compile it into the kernel, or as a removable
>module.
>I'd like to see you try that with say Windoze Explorer. ;')
>(sure you can do it, but the OS sure won't like it!)
>
>>The biggest obstacles to overcome are the following.
>>1) The desktop applications must provide the ease of use, and
>>the totality of the
>> functionality that MS products provide.
>>2) The psychological barrier of something different. People
>>like predictability,
>> and windows is clearly that. You know how things work,
>>even if they don't
>> always work well. I would say the same of most of the
>>major distros of
>> Linux. The oddities of Linux are no more complex than the
>>oddities of Windows,
>> and the difference between a mac and WinTel are not any
>>more significant. You
>> would encounter the same resistance moving a Windows user
>>to a Mac as you
>> would to Linux. Someone who tackles this must be prepared
>>to orientate the
>> users to the new environment.
>>
>The truth of this is irrefutable.
>
>Brian
>
>
>
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