[CLUE-Talk] RH end-of-life

[G. Richard Raab]

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On Tuesday 04 November 2003 10:34 am, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 10:24, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> > Hey, even Matthew Szulik says that Windoze is probably the best choice
> > for a desktop system:
>
> Geez, with friends like these...
>
> Maybe I'm just expecting different things than the "average consumer."
> My first computer was a 486/33 running MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.11, it
> was a royal pain to install a soundcard or modem with that, but I
> managed it. I suffered the same type of pain when I "upgraded" to
> Windows 95, and had issues when I "upgraded" to Windows 98... Linux is
> the only OS that has ever provided a hassle-free install, though not the
> first time I tried it, and I've only purchased one OEM machine with an
> OS pre-installed... wait, make that two -- I owned an iMac for about a
> year.
>
> I think the main problem is a lack of OEMs, not that Linux isn't
> "ready."

Linux maybe ready, but distros are not.
I am helping over a a dozen ppl with their systems and am tired of dealing 
with explaining all the config issues. Linux needs to be easier to config (as 
opposed to install which is easier than MS).

Right now, I am slowly working on several ideas to help that. 

1) a parent control config to control a child's ability to get on the system 
or the network.

2) a way to fight spam on a home server.

3) I have talked to kommander ppl about modifying it to support kcontrol 
module objects. I have worked on an XML genarator for generating gnome, 
webmin, and hopefully KDE control modules.

There are more issues than this though.
Almost all of it is the ease of control.

- -- 
cheers
g.r.r.
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