By the way, on the "train" on the way back from St Pancras last night I found what I think is either The Times or The Guardian on the table in front of me. It had a supplement called G2. There was an article inside which was written by a journalist who didn't seem to know anything about Linux at all. He went on about having to use command line arguments for most things. In an era when Gnome and KDE are very much upon us I find this to be slightly unusual. He also explained that this was to do with Red Hat 6.2.
Yep, it was yesterday's Grauniad. The author wasn't (as far as I can remember) a regular journo. He is a Archie fan. His complaints are not without merit; he wasn't much taken with un-tarring WordPerfect, and for needing to mount a CD to read it. RH wasn't a great choice for him. But he DID conclude that Linux usability is advancing rapidly, and MS isn't going to get cheaper.... What he was trying to do was set up Linux as a net gateway for his home LAN. I have this setup at home (with autodial), and AFAIK you can't do it point and click with any current distro. The full story is at http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,387829,00.html. -- Jim Hague - jim.hague@insignia.com (Work), jim@bear-cave.org.uk (Play) Never trust a computer you can't lift.