** Reply to message from Travis Owens <towens@linuxmds.com> on Tue, 14 May 2002 13:23:36 -0500 ** The real problem with most installs, is where people keep forgetting the ** machine is designed to MS specs and the hardware manufacturers produce ** drivers for them. whoop! May I just say that my last three were NOT built to MS specs... the latest greatest one is built specifically for LINX generally and Suse specifically , and yeah it's a "comercial" box ( Polywell, who's support for linux comes and goes a bit, depending on which partner is on site at the moment , I guess. ( no don't quote me, we've had pretty good results w/ them so far, even to a rebuild of a faulty box <g>) ** If you really want to talk about the installation, we can do that for a ** while on another thread, but remember to make sure you've at least read ** the manual before you tried to install it. /rant mode = ON WOW!! Now that is a good idea, esp when there is a full blah.zero distro released. Since Linux isn't the exclusive property of teh "commercial folk" it's going to have these teaching pains. Teh sort we keep hearing about on this list.. "Why did they put that in this location , Red Drake puts in the more sensable(???) location of foo, where it "ought" to be. In fact, generaly that isn't a proper thing to say ... no one, w/ the posible exception of his Penguiness ( Linus) has the right to say it " MUST" go here or there or any other place... Linux is suposed ot be about "choice" which means, the installer needs input every once in a while ... rant mode = off <G> ** SuSE and ** many of the other distros have done an outstanding job making the ** installation easy enough that even non-tech-savvy people can install i I'll say !! And even more, they can start to use it out of the box now ( w/ the basic stuff it installs) I've got my kid using it, and she is in Oklahoma rather in the more sensible location of S. Florida .. but shikataganai ne? It's a long way to do tech support over the phone ! j don't use the "reply to" it's a spam filter mailto jfweber at bellsouth dot net w/ standard formatting please afterthought I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.