From: Dave Airlie (david.airlie at domain ul.ie)
Date: Tue 27 Apr 1999 - 17:37:45 IST
> The annoying thing about linux is that you only ever seem to have to
> do this once. A really well designed operating system such as
> Windows allows the user constant practice at configuring hardware
> and software, which is an area in which I think Linux still has a
> considerable way to catch up. It's is frustrating to find that you need
> to remember such details only to realise that you last performed this
> operation a year ago, and the cat has eaten your man pages.
<RANT>
However if you are used to a distro most of them support using the setup
tool to do this for you .. for instance with RH today, you don't need to
re-compile the kernel, you just need to run linuxconf and say I have a new
network card in the place where that stuff goes on, however I use RH but
not linuxconf so I don't know how to tell someone to do this type of stuff
in the easy fashion which appears in most dists ...
So what I am saying is basically if someone asks a question on this list
most of the answer will look sickening to a windows type user and they'll
go uggh way too hard, whereas the method given is the old type slackware
hack method as opposed to the newbie yast/linuxconf/whatever solution of
today ...
/me prefers old Slackware solutions usually :-)
</RANT>
Dave.
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