RE: Linux killer!
From: Antonio Olivares (olivares14031_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/31/05
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:09:02 -0800 (PST) To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
--- "STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT)" <stymar@lucent.com>
wrote:
> >
> > If they are not supposed to be watching the videos
> on the school
> > computers, then block them at the firewall as our
> business
> > does. When
> > they cannot watch them on Windows it won't make
> any difference.
> >
> I think the point is that if Linux is to make a
> bigger dent in the
> Windows desktop, more things have to "just work".
> In a similar experiment
> to the one which started this thread, I slowly
> converted a non-technical
> family with three computers from windows to Linux
> and recorded the
> issues which came up.
>
(http://www.swlink.net/~styma/LinuxForTheMasses.shtml)
> The current distributions of Linux still need a
> technical person
> to get things working. The technical person would
> still have no clue
> as to how to get these things working. Many of them
> require a fair
> amount of research on the web. I understand the
> reasons mp3's and
> wmv's don't play right out of the box, but to get
> "Joe Sixpack" using
> Linux requires an update process simple enough for
> "Joe Sixpack" to
> use to get this functionality working.
>
> If making Linux really simple is not working out,
> another model might
> be to have pay subscriptions to remote maintenance
> services. The FC3
> and FC4 boxes I maintain for my friends I can access
> remotely via
> SSH and VNC. On a Windows box, if tech support
> cannot talk you through
> the problem, the user ends up taking the box in and
> paying big bucks.
> ssh, /etc/hosts.allow, and iptables could provide a
> very effective support
> mechanism. On my friends boxes, I am the only one
> with the root password,
> not that they would understand what root was anyway.
>
> Just my 2 cents worth. My point is that Linux needs
> to be simple in
> addition to being better.
>
Agreed, but like the quote from Euclid "There is no
royal path in Mathematics", I would also compare this
to linux
"There is no royal path to Linux". Make it Fedora,
Mandrake, Mepis, Debian, Knoppix, Kanotix, etc., There
is a learning curve and actually, the more you learn
the better and more technical you become. I have
switched some of my friends to Linux, but actually
they do not care how things work, they just want to
hear mp3's and watch videos. With Mplayer + mplayer
plugin, we have been very successful with the
exception of yahoo music. However, I tell my friends
and my students to just listen to streaming video from
shoutcast.com, and bypass yahoo music and yahoo music
videos.
Best Regards,
Antonio
>
> Bob Styma
>
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