Linked by Adam S on Sun 6th Apr 2003 17:18 UTC
This is my reaction to Tsu Dho Nimh's "Migrating to Linux not easy for Windows users" featured on Linuxworld.com recently. It's not a response, I'm not challenging his opinions, which I feel are not only valid, but mostly right, it's just a reaction.
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Adam- great article. a gem. There is no excuse for
reviewing old distros. Maybe each Distro should come up with a cheatsheet/tutorial for the most common
hurdles for the new user. And I mean real spoon fed, hand
holding help files not something lifted from a man page.
Arbor- re: Redhat set standard.
Actually the problem with the LSB is Red Hat through
pride, nih, desire for control wanting LSB standards to
be Redhat standards.
So yes,Rhat should make the hard decisions and ditch rpm for deb,apt-get. What was the point in not
doing this, since everyone is grafting apt onto their
package managment anyway? Had been done, many people could have been spared much of the more common frustrations in installing Linux software. But Pride,NIH, or whatever precluded that.
Also, if the Debian packaging system was the standard think of how much better it would be with evryone help
improve it rather than just the Debian Developers.
Darius - you probably saw this, but just in case
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/1340204&mode...