Re: Can you build your own desktop Client?

On Mar 24, 2:46 am, Dave Uhring <daveuhr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:01:24 -0700, Day Brown wrote:
Slackware, for one, offers a couple dozen kernels, but dont do the
logical thing, to let the user try to install a kernel first to see if
that works, rather than going ahead and installing all the other apps,
only to find out later that the kernel crashes on a particular platform.
And as the variety of CPUs increases, I expect we'll see more of that.

You are either a complete idiot or a lying troll. The on-screen
instructions for Slackware clearly recommend the use of *one* kernel and
one only unless you have very specific requirements. There are three,
yes, three, only three kernels available for booting on the installation
media.

Within the directory slackware/a are a total of four kernels available
for installation. Neither three nor four constitutes "a couple of dozen"
except in your warped world.
The slackware 11 CD install I have lists 16 kernels. It suggests some
for scsi drives, and sata.1 for ide, but does not say what the others
are there for, or which to try if sata.1 dont work.

As it is, it asks me if I want to add the fat 16 and fat32 partions on
another drive to the fstab. Nice. But then, after the install, the
reboot just locks up on a blank screen. No clue. So, I booted off DOS,
and used PART.EXE to rewrite the MBR. It defaults to dos, but if I'm
at the keybd, I hit linux, and slack comes up.

I have a box fulla linux install CDs. BSD, Corel, Caldera, Debian,
Knoppix, Lycoris, Mandrake, Mandriva, PCLinux, Redhat, Sante fe,
Slackware, Suse, & Xandros. With kernels going back to 2.2; I had
earlier, but lost all that when my house burned. I have seen but one
install that offered to go right to the single user desktop. But then
it didnt anyway.

There may well be a way to do that, but the newbie Linux user dont
know what they are, and is not going to screw around with command line
scripts. You want more Linux users? do what they expect. You wanna
special club for geeks who get to feel superior to windoze users- you
already got that.

Lets face it, sheeple are stupid; and if you want a user base large
enuf to fund development teams, you have to keep it simple. A simple
testbed install of the Linux kerel would help convince sheeple that it
will run on their own desktop.

Wanna expand the user base faster? provide a cd that can be used to
boot up crashed windows, burn another CD with all the user data, then
repartition the drive for Linux, logon to download the rest of the
distro- just what's needed for that platform, and then read the user
data off the backup cd. Something with just the killer apps, email and
browser that got the user back online immediately.

It can logon later to download all the other stuff for the scanner,
camera, printer, etc.
.

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