[ale] Distro silliness

[John Wells]

ChangingLINKS.com said:
> I will take that bet. Say I get Linux (and Windows) running "perfectly"
> on a  computer (with little hassle - not talking about incompatible
> hardware, but  instead hardware where the drivers are included in the
> OS).

Not sure what you mean by the above, but I will tell you this:

By installing Suse successfully, you did nothing to disprove the assertion
that your problem was caused by faulty hardware (i.e., cdrom drive).  You
installed via the network...bypassing the need for a cd during the brunt
of the install.  As I mentioned earlier, you can do this just as easily
with Red Hat...in fact, you can install Red Hat with nothing more than a
floppy or two and a nic.

I suspect if you went that route (i.e., Red Hat via network), aside from
finding a server that isn't swamped, your install would go smoothly.

John


> At what point during a RedHat install can a user push a button that
> should  warrant a crash?
>
>
>
> On Saturday 08 February 2003 09:51 am, John Wells wrote:
>> What all this opining about distros comes down to is this:
>>
>> All the big distros out there are more or less stable.  All are good
>> in their own ways.  All have their drawbacks.
>>
>> I suspect people who complain about Red Hat being unstable or hard to
>> maintain are just facing a knowledge gap...it's not the fault of Red
>> Hat that you don't understand how to do a certain thing, or fix a
>> certain problem.  We all get roped into our own frames of reference by
>> past experience, and going outside that frame is not always easy or
>> fun, or possible, without outside help or tons of patience.
>>
>> I'm sure Rickman could run circles around me on Slack, and problems
>> that I would deem unsolvable would probably be easy to him.  Same for
>> Geoffrey on Mandrake or Suse, Thomas on Debian.
>>
>> The point is, of course there are bugs in Linux distros.  The
>> developers and maintainers aren't gods, after all.  But, more often
>> than not, I'll bet my car that the supposed "bug" is actually just a
>> lack of knowledge on the part of the user/installer.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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