On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Vladimir G Ivanovic wrote:
>An IBM manager involved with Linux asked (rhetorically) during a recent
>Q&A session on Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/interviews/01/07/16/1326224.shtml)
>if anyone would be interested in a standard Linux install that needed
>just a couple of mouse clicks. (OK, some text entry would be needed.)
>
>YES!
>
>I want to use Linux; I don't want to install, configure, and maintain
>Linux.
>
>There is no chance that Linux will make much of dent against the Evil
>Empire unless non-techies can install it and use it. That means, in this
>case, that email should work, securely, out of the box.
>
>Of all my non-technical friends, there's not one (that's zero, nil, zip)
>that I could persuade to install Linux on their machine. I'm not talking
>about the lack of applications, I'm just talking about the installation
>process. If we want Linux to successful in more than a niche market,
>the first step is to make it installable by the users in that market.
It is. One doesn't even need sendmail installed to send and
recieve email on one's machine. One only needs sendmail
installed if one wants to have sendmail queue their mail instead
of an MUA like Netscape doing it, or if one needs to run a
mailserver that gets mail sent directly to it.
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Mike A. Harris - Linux advocate - Open Source advocate
Opinions and viewpoints expressed are solely my own.
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