Call for Yum Frontend

[Peter Cannon]

Hi Davy

On Friday 14 May 2004 16:51, Davy Brion wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 04:31, duncan brown wrote:
> > well, apt doesn't come on the fedora DISCS, but it is a part of the
> > official fedora EXTRAS, which is housed at www.fedora.us.
> >
> > you'll find tons of programs there for fedora.
>
> ok, but you simply can't expect a user who's new to linux to figure this
> out on his own.  Fedora should simply provide said user with an easy to
> use tool.  no matter how good you may think apt is, if it's not
> installed _by default_ and easy to use, it's useless to people who are
> coming from windows and trying out Fedora for the first time.
>
> it really amazes me that the Linux community seems to not want to make
> Linux as easy to use as possible to people coming from Windows.
>
> btw, i'm not a new linux user... i've been using linux for 4 years now,
> but trying to get people to switch to Linux is a bitch if a lot of the
> stuff they wanna do is not easily doable with tools that come with the
> distro _by default_

Firstly let me say Duncan is a nice guy, he helped me get both 'apt' and KDE 
3.2 installed having said that I agree with everything you said I was bitten 
by the Linux bug about seven months ago I still run dual boot with windows on 
all my machines because as you say sometimes its quicker, easier to download, 
manipulate stuff with a GUI that is, I have to say, trusted by the world 
(mostly) funnily enough I have been joking on another LUG that there is three 
levels of Linux user:

1: The newbie. Total GUI (Graphical) usage.

2: The intermediate. Text based, avoids GUI and eye candy like the plague 
mention GUI and they'll look at you like you poohed on thier carpet!

3: The grand master. Terminal surgically inplanted in the brain mention a 
keyboard or terminal screen and they will look at you like you slept with 
thier mother they dont use Linux they think it.

-- 
Regards

Peter Cannon

peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk

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