On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:14:44AM -0600, Archaic wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 07:08:10AM +0300, Tapio Aura Kelloniemi wrote: > > > > Building is not, but using may be. > > Using cannot be made easy until someone does a lot of indepth > configuration. None of the books provide that. Distros do. You can't get > from empty partition to a MOM machine in any sort of easy fashion with > LFS.
Not at all easily. But on a MOM machine everything does not have to be easy. I assume that features which are needed include word processing, printing and web browsing (no multimedia, no flash, no java). These tasks are quite easy with tools included in the BLFS book. A person who is skilled with LFS systems can build such a system. As the set of features needed extends the building process becomes more challenging. Of course the user (MOM) has to be taught to the conventions of the system. This applies to all computer systems and it cannot be expected that someone with a window$ background will become a GNU/Linux user in a few minutes. Personally I have seen that a system with GNOME, Firefox, AbiWord and XMMS can be used by a non-technical person. I have to, however, provide support generally once a week. A good description of the uer's computer skills is her response when I asked her to open a file manager window in GNOME (after a year of her using Nautilus): "what!" -- Tapio -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
