What I was saying is that it is easier to have programs loaded at boot time in those other OS's. Windows has a startup folder where you drop programs you want to run. It is fairly easy to add programs to autoexec.bat as well. OS/2 has a simillar system.
Windows registry is not user friendly in itself, but Windows comes with "Regedit" which helps a lot. Yes, OS/2 has a huge config.sys file, but not several init files like Linux has. That is what is confusing. Worse is that it is different on the different distributions as well. On 29-Mar-99 Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>After my initial posting in this thread I must say that Debian, and maybe >>Linux >>in general, has a complicated, not very user friendly, way of handling >>loading >>of drivers and programs at boot. Both DOS/Windows and OS/2 handles this more >>"elegantly". > > By editting a HUGE monolithic CONFIG.SYS file in c:\ that isn't even readable > anymore in OS/2. And every time the OS decides to edit it your local > changes are gone or mutilated. > > Windows .. registry .. user friendly ? > > It's simpler, yes, but because of that it doesn't work either. > > Don't try compare Unix to DOS 3.3. DOS 3.3 is definitely simpler. > > Mike. > -- > Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > -------------------------------- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29-Mar-99 Time: 10:36:49 UIN: 33573035 This message was sent by XFmail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --------------------------------