On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:34 AM, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Until the vendors change their approach, administrators are going to be > working that way. But isn't that why folks bother to hang out on mailing lists and learn how to improve their way of working? I consider the default setup maybe the easiest way to get started, but not necessarily the best approach to run your system. My expectations of an end-user system are different. If you have someone install just one or two systems, you want the installer to do most things right and let the user resume his real work. But with professionals doing installs as their job, I'd expect them to know the requirements better than the vendor. Bonus points for installers that let you tweak the process rather than fight it (I have bad memories of YaST re-install some products each time it could). We used to have IBM products with installation instructions like this: CP MSG OPERATOR PLEASE MOUNT TAPE CP WNG ALL MAINTENANCE WILL BEGIN ! REW 181 Even though these are actual commands, I believe they should not be taken literally as the maintenance procedure in any shop. Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
