APT, Yum and Red Carpet

[Stephan Schutter]

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 ;-)
>