🚀 go-pugleaf

Sourcerer wrote:
> 
> In article <33f79556.22571665@nntp.ix.netcom.com>,
> Brian Mueller <mulder78@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >Chris Saunderson wrote:
> >
> >For that it must
> >be more user friendly. :-)
> Why do you say that Linux isn't user friendly? Having been through
DOS, OS/2, Windows (1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 95 and NT), I must say, that 
learning Linux (and other UNIXes) was a pleasant surprise. True, there
is a rather steep learning curve at the beginning - just like in
graphical envoronments! I didn't really find it obvious how to use
the mouse or how to configure the system - and for every new version,
there was some fundamental change. Having only my, at the time rather
limited, experience with HP-UX, I was able install Linux just like
that.  Knowing Linux (which is a very 'modern' UNIX) I am able to
find my way about in Ultrix (which isn't very modern). Whenever I'm
not able to find out where something is configured, I can launch a
search with a combination of find and grep - there's a good chance
that the configuration information is in a plain text file. In 
Windows, eg., nearly all configuration files are in some obscure
non-text format, and you need a specialised editor for it. And you
can't really use find/grep. 

Further, in Linux things aren't overly integrated. I know it is
trendy to make intergated environments, but when there are problems
you have a harder time debugging, if the things have been welded
together in order to make an integrated environment - in Linux you 
can start one component at a time and see if it works this far.

BTW: It's very easy to integrate things in Linux, where you have
real multitasking, IPC etc.

/jan