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In article <410opd$71m@student.anu.edu.au>,
Jason Stokes  <J.STOKES@student.anu.edu.au> wrote:

>Note that "ease of use" doesn't just include run-time use and troubleshooting, 
>but also installation, maintenance, software updates, ease of networking 
>facilities etc.  For OS/2, most installs are one button jobs (well, mine was. 
>Almost.)  Now will anyone claim that installing/maintaining UNIX has the same 
>ease?  I don't even want to _think_ about the LINUX install procedure!

   Why not?

   Let me, again, beat the drum for the MCC 1.0+ distribution.  The
only place where it's more complicated that the vanilla OS/2 Warp
distribution is that you have to decide what disk gets the linux
kernel (I am not counting the networking here, because as far as
I can tell, OS/2 doesn't have TCP and it's not fair to blame MCC
for asking questions about additional functionality.)

   And, unlike OS/2, the MCC distribution (and, for that matter,
_any_ Linux distribution) will actually let you put multiple
operating systems on the same disk (unlike OS/2, where I had to
move the dos partition to another spindle so that the E-Z TO USE
OS/2 installation program wouldn't get hopelessly confused about
it.)

   The single thing that the OS/2 installation does nicer than MCC
is that it will automagically detect a CD-ROM and go there to pick
up the installation stuff.

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