Yuri K wrote:
>
> --- Mircea Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > distros against
> > Mandrake,and while nobody really consider Corel a competition (the
> > future may prove me wrong ,altough it will take them at least 2-3
> > more
> > releases if they got them right which is unlikely) there is Progeny
> > Linux coming with a lot of hard-backing and a lot of marketing
> > noise .
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> As soon as I hear rants about this or that distro being "moronized"
> or "deviant" in any way, my curiosity meter goes berserk. So, I
> looked at Corel. From the endpoint of view - very elegant for its
> time as far as an end user is concerned. I set one box up inside a
> secured LAN as a SAMBA machine, and it took me a few minutes.
> Mandrake is looking great, but don't ask too much from it- it may
> prove it's a CrashDrake. Besides it's not that RedHat compliant as
> they claim.
> Installationwise they are, but administration is way too different at
> times. But it's nice to have on your desktop to show to a Windows
> soul that machine running Real Audio Player while burning a CD with a
> cute girl on the desktop background :-)
>
> an example of differences in administration, simple set-up of a
> hostname:
>
> RHAT and Mandrake use the same file /etc/sysconfig/network but
> entries inside are different in terms of syntax - actually, Mandrake
> demands 2 lines, whilst RHAT is happy with only one line entry
> Caldera uses /etc/HOSTNAME
> Corel: /etc/hostname
> Slack: /etc/HOSTNAME
> TurboLinux: etc/HOSTNAME
> SuSE: /etc/HOSTNAME
>
> you can easily see the convention to use caps for files and smalls
> for directories by majority
>
> entries in Corel, Slack and Turbo have the same syntax, Caldera's
> identical, but different filename (from Corel - caps), SuSE stands
> out with a different entry syntax. Nothing deadly, but could make
> your head spinning and steal a lot of time in a production
> environment, that's why RHAT is preferred by suits, coz admins tell
> them that it has the most widely disseminated info on all wrongs. I
> haven't worked with some of the latest releases, so correct me , if I
> am wrong.
>
> __________________________________________________
He he..speaking like a true Unix user.:-)
Now my rants with Corel are about 3 .
-kde-corel which last time I tried-initial release screwed up every
other kde package known to man(had to use dpkg --force ) and you
couldn't compile against it
without edtiting by hand the make files -not exactly user friendly IMHO
-the admin tools were kinnda working but too few options and the Corel
Control
Centre was mostly confusing -I skipped that all together
-Corel didn't fix too much stuff ,not even was was easy to fix
But this is pretty enough ,that what I dumped them .
Now for a user who want a system up and running it nice to have a
centralized place for all system settings -a la Windows that;s why where
are the exact files
and what are them doing is less important,thesse are technical issues .
My point-an old Linux user won't switch distros unless for "playing
around" or have a broader view of the Linux "market"
For a Linux company to get in the game they have to appeal to new users
who
don't have a clue and don't give a damn about where the config files are
and
what the syntax is =they'll learn eventually.And really it shouldn't
matter .Maintaining a desktop shouldn't be as hard as maintaining a
specialized server.
The growing market for Linux are the new users where the GUI tools are
important.
Now 6 months down the road any user will want things diferently than
they are
is the distro they started with makes things harder than they feel it
should be.
EG.:Stormix ships with xfs=xtt .Played yesterday about an hour trying to
make
X to see ttf's .Man page is useless ,same is the how=to .I manged to
recompile
ttmkfdir against freetype2 with a small editing of the path in make file
but
took me 40 minutes to find the author's web page ,and compile it.Well
that worked
but couldn't make the server see the fonts -and I put them where the
path in
/etc/xfs/config say .So I gave up ,installed the xfstt font server and
up and running in 30 seconds .How is this user friendly ?
If you look around all the major Linux distros are throwing buzz words
while
working hard to be incompatible between them ,cmopletly forgeting about
easy
to use ,compatibillity ,security ,desktop experience.
End rant of the day .:-)
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