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"Island Computer" <dbturner@islandco.com> writes:

> I understand that Linux is an OS that is non platform specific - and not
> particularly hardware specific with reference to video cards etc., but I DO
> think it would be a VERY good idea to develop particular shrink wrapped
> products for the average user to install just as they would Win98 or NT

Yeah, what we really need is software packages that automatically
replaces working libraries with broken ones, changes the text in
various system dialogs to German, crashes during install forcing you
to reinstall the whole system, and leaves a corrupted registry on
uninstall.  

If you don't have that, the system is simply not user friendly enough
to be popular.  And rpm -i is just too darn hard to type.

> If the COmputer industry wants to provide a more than feable attempt at
> competition to Microsoft, then there needs to be a simple "install and use"
> package based around Linux that includes a GUI - something not too
> dissimilar to Windows

Yep.  We really need to find a Linux installation that requires you to
reboot the computer thirty times, and which refuses to be installed
with any other Linux version.

> Sadly, the majority of people that do have 99% of clout in the Computer
> business have always been the 1% of users,

Sadly, the people that have 99% of the clues, commit 1% of the Usenet
postings. 

Really.  Get the Mandrake distribution, slap in the CD, answer a
couple of simple questions (even though they're not really GUIfied, I
know.  Major loss - not) and use KDE.

Sorry about the rant, it's the end of the day, and too much coffee.

-kzm
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If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants