On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Jill Rowling wrote: > Also I would want the retailer to sell a system whose hardware was in a > known working state. > Most people have little desire to debug their new machine's hardware and > prefer to leave this to the retailer. > The retailer, similarly, would prefer to sell a machine with the hardware > and operating system in a known working state. > It doesn't matter whether the os is Linux or something else; the retailer > needs to check that the hardware is working with os before it leaves the > shop. I agree - if I buy a box with the OS already on it, I am assured that it's going to work. If I was a newbie I could just let it run out of the box, with a few tweaks as needed. Since I am a professional, I can choose to delete the default setup once I am happy that the hardware is functioning. UNIX is about choices, right? ;) rachel Rachel Polanskis University of Western Sydney, Nepean Senior UNIX Admin PO Box 10, Kingswood NSW 2747 Systems && Operations Information Technology Services, Kingswood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +61 (0247) 360 291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
