On a unrelated note; I really don't understand where people have all these problems with 2000/XP...95/98/Me is perfectly understandable, given their status as abominations. But clean installs of 2000/XP have never given me trouble. I've bluescreened them once, and that was after foolishly trying to use a very old piece of hardware that only has 9x real mode drivers. Maybe I drink different water? :-) -- Justin L Croonenberghs Webmaster/Owner, Geek Stuff http://www.geekstuff.info/ Sometimes, I even update. "Never memorize what you can look up" - Albert Einstein Vince Scimeca said: > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 16:34, Steve Withers wrote: >> On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 18:05, Justin L Croonenberghs wrote: >> > Why not? He's being honest. Can you honestly imagine your grandma >> picking >> > up a computer and then finding out she needs to edit her /etc/inittab? >> > >> > :-) >> >> If she wants Internet browsing and e-mail, there would be no need for >> her to do that. >> >> Would you tell yer Grandma all she needs to do is run 'regedit' and make >> some changes to her registry keys? >> >> Or how do you explain she needs to patch new XP system to keep the worm >> viruses away....but she can't connect to the Internet to download the >> patch becasue she will be infected? >> >> This is just two situations that are more of a pain than most things I >> do on Linux. >> >> There are many more. > > I agree. I have been a RH user for some time now. My wife, who would > probably be considered to have average PC knowledge has always been a M$ > user. After getting tired of rebuilding her W2K laptop for who knows > how many times for many various reasons I instead rebuilt her laptop to > RH. I checked with her to see what apps she needed (browser, email, doc > editor, spreadsheet) and thought this would be a good thing to do. > Hell, if she didn't like it I could always bring her back to M$. It has > been several months now that she has been running RH and I have not had > to touch the machine to address any issues since I handed it over to > her...and she uses it on a daily basis. She has no reason to know > anything about opening a terminal for what she needs to do. I am not > saying that this is an ideal situation for the masses, but I also don't > think Linux should be looked at as something you need to be a computer > geek to understand. Luckily in our situation if my wife had an issue > with it she has a computer geek who can take care of it ;-) > -- > Vince Scimeca - Senior Technology Manager > Jupitermedia Corp. > vscimeca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
