On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 15:47:44 EST, James Patterson Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Linux is just not ready for prime time. By prime time I mean on the > homes of the American public. Regular home consumers don't want to have > to learn a new language to use e-mail or play games. They want to be > able to update a security hole without having to compile something. Well.. if you're on a RedHat box, you run up2date and it gives you a nice little gui to download and install the RPMs. Even gives you a flashing exclamation point on the menu bar if there's updates available. You're on Debian, you 'apt-get' the updates, and I'm sure there's a gui for that too. The only people who have to compile anything are the people who compiled it from source the first time. And in fact, that's the whole *point* of a Linux DISTRIBUTION - so you don't have to run Linux-from-scratch. Linux isn't quite ready for Aunt Tilley yet. But having to compile stuff to install patches isn't one of the reasons.
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