Mail Archives: opendos/1997/04/27/03:44:00
On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Lorier wrote:
> 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?
Well, actually, Red Hat is now (with release 4.0 and 4.1) about just as
easy as Windows 95. Just that instead of a "Typical, Complete, Laptop,
Custom" radio-button choice, you get a couple of checkboxes with things
like "Multimedia Software", "Web server", "FTP server" and so on,
separated by general functionality instead of actual packages. There two
buttons at the bottom and a checkbox: Install, Cancel and "Select each
packages manually" (for the more knowledgeable, but still it takes what
you select in the checkboxes as defaults).
The install itself is much better and easier than Win95. To be more on the
same level, we should compare with Windows NT 4.0 Server instead, no? You
have to create 3 boot disk and the installation is not quite as easy and
you lack a ton of things (like, you install the web server but you still
have stuff to do to make it work, with Red Hat, you just open up a browser
and it works (with a demo page telling how to put your own pages in
there))...
Red Hat 4.1 blows both Win 95 and Win NT to smithereens. In every aspects.
Pierre Phaneuf
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