APT, Yum and Red Carpet
Stephan Schutter
rhl at farorbit.com
Tue Aug 12 21:36:48 UTC 2003
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Elton Woo wrote:
This is true for administrators but not home users. The consumer market
will give you money if you give them what they want, else, they will give
you nothing. I can tell you that they do not want to learn Linux... I do;
I am an admin and an enthusiast.
> On August 12, 2003 12:59 pm, Jesse Keating <hosting at 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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