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On 18 Mar 1997 15:24:12 GMT, Josh Grebe <squash@inlink.com> wrote:

>If I may interject a bit here...
>
>Some standard unix commands should be known before trying to install
>linux. If you can use ls, cd, man, and more, then you should be able to
>get through it. According to my system, the /usr/doc series of directories
>contains over 11 megabytes of documentation, and that is with the HOWTO's
>compressed.  When I started with linux I had only the basics of using unix
>down, but things are running smoothly now.
>
>Basicly, if you don't think you can do it, buy a book :)

It still requires quite a lot of enterprise and intelligence - a lot of the
things aren't documented very well, and if you are used to a nice, point 'n'
drool interface, you will be in for a shock.

Linux is *not* for everyone.  It isn't *nearly* ergonomic enough for a
mass-market OS.  Some day, it might be, and there are people working
(slowly) on making it easier to use.  Things like the dotfile generator -
I'd like to see more utilities like that.  But let's not kid ourselves that
everyone will convert to linux, just because they have seen the light.

Look, there are people out there who do everything as root.  There are
people out there who run into install problems, and can't figure out how to
recover.  There are lots of people who haven't coped with Linux very well.

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Jason Stokes: j.stokes@bohm.anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (06) 291 93 84