On August 12, 2003 12:59 pm, Jesse Keating <hosting(a)j2solutions.net> wrote:
Giving a secretary root on a box is just
insane. Corporate images are developed, deployed and only updated when
there is a true business need. Allowing users to install software
willy nilly just causes huge headaches, leads to virus infection and
system instability. While there is some argument for having a nice gui
frontend to installing software, it doesn't quite click in the real
corporate environment.
True. And though I would still vote for a more user friendly interface,
I'm sure that most linux users would NOT want linux to become
"Microsoft Windows", where, if something goes wrong, the user
hasn't a clue in hell what to do, and winds up reinstalling and rebooting
his/her system a nauseam.
I strongly feel that is is WORTH the EFFORT to learn linux, and learn
the underpinnings, so that one knows what to do in case of hardware
failure, or the (more frequent) human failure...
Elton ;-)
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