longer title : (which I thought would be overkill for a "Subj:" header) :
FSM [freesoftwaremagazine.com] on the topic of making the installation of ["application" vs. OS] software (in Gnu/Linux) *so easy a grandma could do it: * I recently got an interesting "opinion" / "editorial" message (maybe "partly" technical, too) about this, via e-mail from freesoftwaremagazine.com ; I decided not to "Forward" it to this list, and not only because I wanted to avoid risking maybe running afoul of some copyright rules (or even, maybe just netiquette rules) that I might not be 100% up on. But, (as long as there is a perfectly good copy of it out there on their web site), (see the hyper link below), another reason not to forward that e-mail message, is the fact there are some of the little sections (which I mostly skipped!) that are delimited by little "=delimiter=" markers, like this: =TEXTBOX_START=<title>= [...body...] =TEXTBOX_END= (where "<title>" could be, e.g., "Free Software Magazine is now on Twitter! " and [...body...] 'represents' the "content", that is, the body of the TEXTBOX), and ** most of ** those little sections (100% I think) DID NOT get handled right, by some robot that was [apaprently] "trying" to convert some kind of "markup" stuff, into a valid html e-mail message. I do not know if the misbehaving robot was at the "sending" end, or at the "receiving" end [which for me is gmail]; or somewhere in between [which for me includes acm.org, which uses postini.com for filtering]; so -- anyway -- here is, "instead!", a link to it: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/2009_software_installation_linux_broken_and_path_fixing_it<http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/2009_software_installation_linux_broken_and_path_fixing_it> enjoy... -- Mike Schwartz Glendale AZ schwa...@acm.org
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