On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Larry Brown wrote:
>
>
> >For local RPM collections, RH8 has the Red Hat package manager. It's
> >still a bit limited, but I believe they are working to make it better and
> >more flexible. We'll see. But this is not the issue that is preventing
> >RHL from taking over the world, and it's not so easy to fix that someone
> >else has already done it.
>
> Admittedly everything sounds on the mark, I just have to say that I could
> justify some of the problems/solutions one of my client has to go through in
> Linux to use it as their desktop. There is no way I could justify spending
> 3 hours of downloads and installs to get a new application to work when
> adding a new one to M$ wouldn't take any of that. If they have the same
> problems, they do a good job of masking it. If I get something that says it
> runs on win2k, I run install and it is done. I think this is the biggest
> hurdle for Linux. That is for it to take over the world and all. For me to
> use it..here I am.
>
>
> --
> Matthew Saltzman
>
> Clemson University Math Sciences
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
I just want to point out that the attributions here aren't correct. The
sig is mine, but the text is Larry Brown's.
Also, Windows DLL Hell rears its ugly head later, not during install...
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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