On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:54:27 -0400, "Phillip Mills" <pmills-5bG9SNWDbRX3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> said:

On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 01:21 PM, Mike Kallies wrote:

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I have these visions of some poor journalist standing at the front of an auditorium with his notebook on a podium with 50 people yelling stuff like "run ldconfig!", "Pick the frame buffer X driver!", "No, the OTHER left mouse button!", "You need devfs for that to work!", "'ln' dash 's', no! 'ln' _space_ dash 's'!"

You're psychic! The only way it could have been worse is if we'd given the poor guy a wedgie on his way out. I am absolutely amazed that his follow-up article wasn't a complete dismissal of Linux, TLUG, and everything else that even contains the letter 'L'. :-)

Maybe we should have pointed out that non-commercial Linux software is mostly distributed in rpm or deb format and installed by way of package managers and therefore actually simpler than installing on Windows. We could have, by way of contrast, demonstrated installing AbiWord or OpenOffice (from a local source) with Synaptic. Also, we could have demonstrated with Xandros where Crossover Office setup is a breeze - just pick it off a 'Start Menu' item. ------------------- Andrew Malcolmson -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml