Linked by John Munsch on Mon 30th Dec 2002 19:05 UTC
Why do it? I am asked this question more often than I expected, even by existing Linux users who I expected to know as well as I the reasons for building a next-generation desktop Linux for the home user. So here are some of my reasons for thinking that we must spend the effort to create a better desktop on Linux than any existing version now has. Editor's Note: Due to a technical glitch, the first segment of this article was ommitted for some readers. If you missed the "why" section, before, you can read it now.
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Please Aitvo, stop. You don't troll tactfully and its starting to grate on my nerves. Every time I read a post of yours, I can almost see you sitting at your computer chanting "Linux Can Do No Wrong!" over and over again.
You havn't offered anything useful to this thread aside from re-wording someone else's post into the opposite of what their experience was amd labeling it as your own. Furthermore you're over simplifying things with half baked notions that you configure something once and forget about it. You don't do that with everything.
Here are a few I know that are not like how you say:
FTP servers - the entire interface for vsftpd is CLI and config file driven... adding new/banning old users? ...playing with .conf files.
Webserver - adding a new server? one with a new .dso module? ... playing with more configs.
Icecast - adding new music? playing with config files.
So rather than adding nothing to the threat other than to show that pretty much view linux as nirvana. Why not give specific examples of why you think certain things are unecessary to change? Or even explain why you feel the current suggestion is not better. Geez, your going to give everyone the idea that Tampa (where I live too) is the epitome of Denial-ville.