On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 13:56 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Tuesday, 2008-11-18 at 07:57 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
Seriously though: was it ever really only for nerds? :)
When I first installed SuSE, it took me perhaps a week to get graphics working, a month to get good graphics. It had to be configured by hand, sax was not yet invented or was too primitive (SuSE 5.2).
Not many users would have endured that entry learning curve!
I was joking. You at least had graphics... <cue violins> In my day, we had to do the graphics before dawn on an empty stomach. In the winter we often had no shoes and had to fight the wolves to get the network working. Linux users today don't know how easy they have it. They have it too easy. No character building ;) ;) -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- "On two occasions I have been asked (by members of Parliament!), 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage 1791-1871) English computer pioneer, philosopher And remember: It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. It is like talking about large city with all constructions finished. Not impossible, but very unlikely. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org