Hi!
>Can you expect to say to a housewife : This is a Linux cd. Install it on
>this computer and I expect you to have looked at these Internet sites by
>tomorrow morning? It would have to be some housewife!! Linux needs far to
>much work still to make it fit for the masses.
I wouldn't be that sure. My mother is a non-experienced computer _user_,
and she got a Linux CD once. It was SuSE 7.0 She tried to install it, and
at the next day she wrote me an E-Mail where she said that she has a new
OS now (she couldn't remember the name "Linux", but that doesn't matter).
She just booted from the SuSE 7.0 CD, started Yast2 and clicked through
the installation. It worked.
Just my $0.02.
But actually it's a real childishness. This OS-War between Windows and
Unix exists a long time and it will exist a long time. My personal opinion
is if you use an operating system, and you can work with it, it's fine. I
don't like Windows either, and I don't work with it anymore, but that's
another thing.
Best Regards,
Freddy
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Received on Fri Jan 12 2001 - 11:53:52 GMT