Message-Id:	<m0wLGUm-000FllC@hn.planet.gen.nz>
Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 97 11:03 NZST
Mime-Version:	1.0
To:	pierre AT tycho DOT com
From:	Lorier <lorier AT ihug DOT co DOT nz>
Subject:	Re: Usage of directory entries
Cc:	OpenDOS Developer Mailing List <opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com>

At 05:57 PM 26/04/97 -0400, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:
>On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Lorier wrote:
>
>> >True, but why wouldn't it be a "real" operating system like Linux is? In 
>> >fact, we should take as much from Linux as we can with OpenDOS still being 
>> >DOS!
>> 
>> Ummm.... Linux has the single disadvange that idiots that can't live without
>> a mouse take one look at linux and panic.  We should try to avoid that...
>> make it MORE simplistic... Make it so that "advanced" windows users use
>> opendos... and advanced opendos users use linux :)
>
>Have you ever seen a Linux box running xdm at boot? X-Windows by default,
>with a X login prompt (looks a bit like the one in Windows 95 or NT)...
>

Sure, when Linux is installed and running it's easy to use... But give your
grandmother:

Win95's hold-your-hand-and-don't-let-the-user-interfere install
Dos 6.2's Feed-me-disks-and-click-ok-occasionly install
OpenDos's "broken" install
RedHats
select-what-you-want-to-install-from-6CD's-You-do-know-what-every-thing-is-d
on't-you? Install
and
SnackWheres You'd-better-know-what-your-doing install 

and which one(s) could she install?

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