On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:13:07PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 06:32:54PM -0800, Dale Welch wrote: > > > For him and many other people having an easy install OS is imperative. > > No. John Q. Public has no business pretending he's competent to install a > complex operating system. He's not, he shouldn't be doing it, 'nuff said.
Probably why live-cds are appealling. I am not J.Q.P. I write device drivers and R/T applications. I've always relied on S/A to provide GPOS computing services and applications so I can do my specialized work. Now I'm on my own and I have to be SA and specialist. I simply can't learn all the SA tasks and techniques at once. Ease of installation of a GPOS is valuable to more than J.Q.P. I think live-cds demonstrate the easy-to-install GPOS are feasible. I sure hope the arguments of live-cd != Debian are not motivated by a sour-grapes attitude that Debian-pure is not as easy to install as a Debian-based live-cd. What interests me at this point is if and when there will be a live-cd == Debian (stable, testing, unstable) -- Mike Two hundred years ago, we note mischievously, the average American or European had a standard of living not very much superior to that of the average man in India or China. -- dailyreckoning.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
