-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 20 Dec 2002 11:19:40 -0600, Bret Hughes wrote:
> Part of what is being discussed is apples and oranges in a way. The > "ease" of windows comes largely from the computer seller loading it > and making sure the drivers for all the hardware he is selling is > there. I have not done a bare metal install of xp or win2000 but I > can say from very painful experience that win 9x installs can have > significant issues too. I imagine that there are issues with the > newer versions of the OS as well. Absolutely true. "Driver installation and reboot hell" belongs to those issues when, for instance, you install the OS on recent hardware. Turns you into a disc jockey quite easily. What a MS Windows user doesn't need to do, though, is getting tarballs, editing Makefiles and compiling drivers for the correct kernel version. Up-to-date packages for the latest Linux distributions, such as can be found on the NTFS web site at SourceForge, are really helpful. However, with a new kernel update, the user needs to update the drivers again or suddenly things stop working. Also, I don't think a user must know the exact kernel version and kernel package release version before downloading a driver package. Still a pain is installation of pre-compiled applications which fail due to incompatible dependencies. This is a nightmare for the average user. Same applies to popular apps like Mozilla when installation of a new version breaks the integration of the older version (and depending packages) which the distributor has shipped. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+A17S0iMVcrivHFQRAv8lAJ40wraK8G2BBf+FgatELPcZpEoySQCeKqwT an33IuEumeWd1U6hLtazPA4= =VTPI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
