As for Linux being for the average users...it is definitely NOT.
Average users want everything to be done for them with no possibility of having to actually think. Its a sad state but if it were not for Windows there would not be any average users! just geeks like us.
Hold the phone there bucko! <grin> If windblows were such a great thing for average users, we wouldn't be having this discussion. The MacOS is vastly superior for average users (after all, where does windblows come from!?) and I am convinced beyond reason or discussion that Linux is too. Why? Because of MacOS X. For practical purposes, MacOS X is the Mac idiot-proof interface on top of Unix/BSD/Linux. This is one of the reasons I am so hot for Linux. Linux can be left exactly as geekish as it is so those of us who wish to, can get under the hood and tweak to our heart's content, leaving in place a GUI perfect for the clueless user. Better still, any number of different levels of GUI sophistication can be used, depending on the sophistication or lack of it of the user. Linux/Unix/BSD is the absolute PERFECT system for this. And obviously Apple thinks so too, or OS X wouldn't exist. Where Windblows amounts to an attempt to turn a dead-end command line system (and a poor one at that) into a GUI without first jettisoning any balast, Linux (at least as I see it) is a far more sophisticated command line system capable of masquerading as a limitless procession of GUI's. In other words, Linux can be anything to anyone... the perfect OS. Here's what I think is really hysterical: while uncle Bill is feverishly trying to dump windblow's DOS heritage and turn it into a pure GUI, the Linux command line/GUI system is flourishing and Apple, after 16 years, is going back to a system that can be approached from the command line, in addition to the GUI. I just can't stop laughing at the notion that uncle Bill is going in the wrong direction and doesn't know it. (But even if he does know, it's too late to stop the train now.) I am a 10 year Macophile/zealot/true believer, but I can see the handwriting on the wall, and Linux is it. I just wish I could be a fly on the wall when Gates realizes he is at last, the odd man out! David Kachel -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/