Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 03:31:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Phaneuf Reply-To: pierre AT tycho DOT com To: Lorier cc: OpenDOS Developer Mailing List Subject: Re: Usage of directory entries In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk 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