hoax or bad taste joke by Redhat's CEO?

Razvan Corneliu C.R. "d3vi1" VILT razvan.vilt at linux360.ro
Wed Nov 5 15:34:52 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 10:38, Steve Withers wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 21:15, Niels Weber wrote:
> 
> > BTW: You did notoffer to install Linux, did you install Windows for her?
> > What is if anything breaks on her Windows machine? Are you the one to
> > reinstall and fix everything? I now refuse to give that kind of
> > "support" to people using Windows. That's a marketing concept of
> > Microsoft, people giving that free support to their users.
> 
> Same here....the best help i can give most Internet/word-processing
> Windows users is to get rid of Windows.  

The best help I can give to windows users is update-it on a daily basis,
update the virus definitions, update Spybot S&D and use Mozilla instead
if MSIE.
Windows itself is not a problem... when did you see Microsoft releasing
a hot-fix for ntoskrnl.exe? The problems usually lie in MSIE, DCOM &
RPC. On the server side also on Exchange.
Been a redhat user since 4.2, never wanted anything else & just love
Fedora, but, although I can convince my mother to use OO.o instead of
MSOffice, my brother who uses XChat or bitchX instead of mIRC is still
unhappy with the game support (if any) in WineX for certain popular
PC-Games. He is unhappy with the sharing of files on our small network
with our neighbors, he just hates editing smb.conf (yes I have enough
trust him to do this) and restarting samba, he just hates the lack of
ACL editing tools in GNOME for his XFS partition, just like he does it
in Windows NT 4,5,5.1 at his friend's place, he just hates the ACL
support in SAMBA, and he wants an encryption-enabled file-system. There
are tons of details that GNU/Linux does not have yet...
He thinks that we should have a sort of daemon which GNOME/KDE can
connect to and configure SAMBA/APACHE or others by simply right-clicking
on the file/folder. He just wants SAMBA/APACHE to advertise to the
daemon what is configurable by what users at them and GNOME to take the
options from there and build a dynamic file-properties dialog.
It's not a bad idea... but only if you look at the concept, plus the
fact that changes should be made at service level & desktop environment
level, and of course write the daemon to do that, which is quite
improbable... Microsoft HAS such tools... We don't have them, we have to
edit smb.conf & httpd.conf, we have to use chacl, chmod & chown. This is
not bad in a server environment, but on a desktop it's way to much for
the average user... Apple, although I don't like using their tools to
configure Apache & CUPS, with MacOS X was a break-through for the
desktop UNIX-like user because it showed that it can be done, the
question is can it be done for Linux/*BSD/others???

Feel sorry for this, but GNU/Linux is not ready for the desktop market,
at least for the average user.





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