I think it is very sad that the Linux community, as a whole, seems to believe that Linux should be difficult to install requiring users to learn about monitor frequencies for X windows configuration, cryptic configuration file settings, file system setup, etc. I wish someone would make a distribution that litterally installed as easy on average as AmigaDos, BeOs, Windows 95, MacOS, etc.
That doesn't mean any power has to be removed from Linux just that a default configuration for most users be available. If that is not the tenant of Debian and the Linux community continues to believe that only "techies" should use Linux then Linux will never grow as large as its potential. Linux is a great OS overall but I for one would love to see a distribution for the people you deem "clueless". If such a ditribution was created perhaps it would be viable for an average Windows user to see what great alternative OS Linux is.
The fact remains most people are "clueless" because they don't have time, or the need to spend hours recompiling their kernals to get that one extra clock cycle worth of power. They want to install it and go. Linux has the ability to do this while still remaining 100% tweakable for the power hungry "techies" out there. As long as we continue to think of them as mutually exclusive we will never see Linux take over the portion of the Windows market that I'm sure would mean a wealth of software applcations for all of Linuxdom.
Just thought everyone would like to know. This ruling is uterly rediculous. I'd imagine several old computer pulblications now hold copyright to most of the mathematical algorithms used in computing.
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I think it is very sad that the Linux community, as a whole, seems to believe that Linux should be difficult to install requiring users to learn about monitor frequencies for X windows configuration, cryptic configuration file settings, file system setup, etc. I wish someone would make a distribution that litterally installed as easy on average as AmigaDos, BeOs, Windows 95, MacOS, etc.
That doesn't mean any power has to be removed from Linux just that a default configuration for most users be available. If that is not the tenant of Debian and the Linux community continues to believe that only "techies" should use Linux then Linux will never grow as large as its potential. Linux is a great OS overall but I for one would love to see a distribution for the people you deem "clueless". If such a ditribution was created perhaps it would be viable for an average Windows user to see what great alternative OS Linux is.
The fact remains most people are "clueless" because they don't have time, or the need to spend hours recompiling their kernals to get that one extra clock cycle worth of power. They want to install it and go. Linux has the ability to do this while still remaining 100% tweakable for the power hungry "techies" out there. As long as we continue to think of them as mutually exclusive we will never see Linux take over the portion of the Windows market that I'm sure would mean a wealth of software applcations for all of Linuxdom.
1 + 4 + 2^5 * X
and
1 + 6 * X + Z
Just thought everyone would like to know.
This ruling is uterly rediculous. I'd imagine several old computer pulblications now hold copyright to most of the mathematical algorithms used in computing.