On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:10, HaywireMac wrote:If that is all "they" really want to do, then perhaps some sort of hardwired - hardcoded appliance is what we should give them ... something with just enough LINUX in an eprom to make something like an old 3270 terminal. Just a screen, keyboard, connection to a mainframe. No drives. No storage. No Memory.
It's not that its harder, it's that most people don't care.On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:47:56 -0600 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
I do. Most all current home desktop users, windoze users should stay right where they are. Most aren't even aware of 'hardware' issues on anything but Winsux (ie, proprietary, or winhardware). How many times do we now see "...but it works with Windows". Some expect an OS that they can change to with no effort on their part. Creating an unaffordable support headache, misinformation, and discouragement for Linux distros that provide free/free 'as is' GPL/GNU software.
I don't. I'd rather not have many millions of zombie spam-spewing virus-spreading bandwidth-eating illegal-monopoly-supporting privacy invading POS OS's out there, when the alternative is just as easy to use, more stable, more secure, and doesn't violate people's privacy rights and render the internet almost unusable at times.
A better day awaits us when Windows is forever banished into the garbage
heap of history where it belongs.
If Linux is too hard for someone to understand and use, which is
difficult to believe, then there's always the Mac.
they want to surf and do email and play games kinda like getting them to
read Plato ...they see no need
Harv
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