Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Thu 3rd Jun 2004 07:02 UTC
During the majority of my time working with computers, Windows was the operating system of choice. Reason being, it's all I've known. In 2002, I took a college course titled "Linux Administration" which entitled me to a few cd-roms of Redhat 7.x. While this course was nothing more than a few extra credits for me, I fell in love with Linux and went through the entire textbook a week into the class. It was a nice feeling to use something "different" than what I was used to.
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Hi,
. When she first got linux, she asked if it was a new windows? I just nodded and said 'Sure, latest and greatest'.
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When i started useing RedHat in 1998 RPMs seemed like a perfectly good idea. However, Linux far outgrew the capacity of the RPM system, and requiering new dependencies everyday. One day, i had enough of that - and retired my redhat install infavor of Gentoo - now, Gentoos portage is like apt-get - only, better. However, binary packages are a rarity, but i suspect it will come sooner or later.
My Mother uses Linux, only, she dont know that. Nor would she care, as she only does 3 things on the computer: Play Solitaire, and other card games. Check her webbased email with firefox. And finally browse a few newspapers online - i made a news.html as start page that has the links she wants
It just runs, and if i need to fix something or upgrade it, i just ssh into it. Its all good now
I think when a Linux installation is just running, any novice user should be able to just go ahead and use it, everything they need is right there, in the familiar "start-menu". The Admin is the one who installs packages. Not the average user.