All I have to say to this is that my 14 year old daughter installed 7.0 on a
dual boot machine (the 98 was already installed), having never installed an
operating system in her life. Except for some help with disk partitioning,
she did it without help. I tried this as an experiment to see how much
expertise it took to do the install. Obviously this tells me something
about the author of the article.
Paul Anderson
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Subject: why linux gets such a bad rap ...
... subtitled: a man really should know his limitations.
a recent security column in the nov 27 issue of computerworld is the
perfect example of why people who don't understand linux shouldn't be bad
mouthing it.
in "security manager's journal," someone who goes by the pseudonym of
"jude thaddeus" (and whose email address can be found under the "Cc:"
listing above) writes of his trials and tribulations regarding installing
linux thusly:
"... Well, I finally did it, though in the end, I installed it
about 10 times because things kept going wrong. Admittedly,
some of these errors were due to crass mistakes on my part,
but it was still a difficult process.
"Most of the mistakes were caused by trying to install
Windows 2000 and Linux on the same machine. People have told
me that its [sic] possible to do it, but in practice, the
resulting mess was beyond the abilities of even our resident
Linux expert to sort out. ..."
Where to even begin discrediting such idiocy? Apparently, the author
admits he's never even *met* someone who's configured a dual-boot machine,
and who might have given him some useful advice.
And while setting up dual-boot *might* be a bit tricky for a novice,
it's hard to understand why that should be such a problem for the
"resident Linux expert." Methinks that this expert was chosen as being
the first person in the office who ventured the opinion, "Well, yeah, I
installed Linux on my machine at home yesterday. I'll give it a shot."
Is it any wonder linux is getting such a bad rap for being difficult
when columnists get to blame their problems on the operating system and
not on their own breathtaking incompetence? resident linux expert,
indeed. sheesh.
rday
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"This is Microsoft technical support. How may I misinform you?"
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