RedHat

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Quoting Jason Clinton <clintonj at umkc.edu>:

> Now, I want to install XQF (the TCP/IP game browser) so I can play 
> online. Certainly this is not an esoteric request.

Boy, I'd sure think so.  Then again, I've known Linux for a while, and 
I know it's not a finished-and-polished-for-marketing world.  I know 
that things like games that are always cutting-edge are going to be 
iffy at best and require delving deep into the system.

RedHat probably didn't tell you about grep, sed, awk, vi, or ifconfig 
either.  For that, you need to read some books or at least online 
HOWTO's on Linux.

> RedHat is lying to its newbie customers and that turns people off 
...

Not hardly.  99% of the newbie customers want to do email, browse the 
web, and do word processing.  Cutting-edge gaming is not their target 
market - again, Microsoft has that pretty well covered, especially that 
portion of the market that is more interested in the latest game than 
in the code running under it.

The other, very obvious, point is that it wouldn't be any easier on any 
other distro, and your complaint is so much misdirected sophmoric rant.

I too made the mistake of thinking that if RedHat were selling a Linux 
distro, it should be finished and polished and everything should work 
and be documented.  Wrong.  Linux (not just RedHat) is a work in 
progress.  Probably it allways will be.

A friend made a good comment: "With Linux I feel like I have to put on 
my hard hat and toolbelt every time I want to change anything on my 
system."  Yup.  That's Linux.

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