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On Wednesday 20 December 2006 19:42, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> As for family members not a single one of them, except possibly my |
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> son today could even have a chance of setting up a Linux box. |
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Looks like you are assuming stuff up front and never actually getting |
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round to checking it out for real |
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> My |
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> son's first computer was RH when he was 6 or 7. Today's he's 14, runs |
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> Gentoo, rips CDs, uses Aqualung & xmms. He *might* get through a RH |
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> install but not Gentoo. |
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Can't he read or something? Gentoo's install is more heavily documented |
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than any other distro out there |
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> It's not that Gentoo is so hard. It's that |
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> none of them know anything about 'vi' so how could they even edit a |
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> config file and give the system an IP address or point it at a name |
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> server? |
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The basic installer does not provide vi for this exact reason. It |
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provides nano, so this objection doesn't even rear it's head |
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> (Maybe the graphical installer but I'd not let them try for |
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> fear they'd wreck existing Windows installs trying to load it.) |
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The risk that the user might nuke the partitions containing Windows is |
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always there regardless of what distro you use. You still make the same |
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decisions, fdisk, cfdisk and gparted are still there. Whether you click |
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here, click OK then say "oops..." or type "fdisk /dev/sda" <some stuff> |
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then say "oops" you're still gonna say "oops" .... |
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alan |
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