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Average home user installing drivers in Linux, pffft!
Talkback Pretty obvious you haven't used Linux recently. The only driver I have had to install, in the last 3 years, has been video drivers, and my distro tells me there is a proprietary driver available and would I like to use it.
[October 12, 2009, 12:41]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback It is really easy to see that Linux in any distro wasn't truly meant for the home user and although great strides have been made recently (Poor example being Lindows) it is still meant more for the Home business user rather than the average...
[November 5, 2003, 21:17]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback It is very dificult for the typical home user to install and run RedHat (or most other disributions of Linux) in its present state. By concentrating on enterprises RedHat will increase the viability of Linux as it is accepted and relied upon by the...
[November 12, 2003, 9:19]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback I myself run linux at home and have connected an all in one printer/fax/copier/scanner, my ipod and a DV camera. Red Hat should not consider itself as being linux. Red Hat might not feel that their product is ready for the home user because it isn...
[November 4, 2003, 13:27]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback Linux is *NOT* ready for the average home user's desktop. You cannot expect a home user to know the in's and out's of init scripts (for all you "experts" in the audience, these are the files that tell your Linux system how to start up), or how to...
[January 5, 2004, 21:19]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback Personnaly, I am using SuSE 9.0 Pro on my home desktop and laptop while I type this and this home user is certain that Linux is a superior product over Windows for this home user. I don't agree, but if RedHat really believes that Microsoft Windows...
[November 4, 2003, 14:36]
A challenge to all Linux Users in the World
Blog Comment Humorous to a long time (non-geek) user of GNU/Linux (Linux is the kernel. As with any GNU/Linux box, I can securely SSH into my user account (or the root account since I am the system administrator) from anywhere in the world.
[May 27, 2007, 15:25]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback I am a programmer and an experienced user of Unix, Linux and Windows. Although I find Linux very useful myself, in the correct place, I have always said that the Linux community needs to vastly improve the useability and compatibility of it's...
[November 6, 2003, 10:51]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback Szulik said which is that linux may not be the best choice for the typical home user. I agree that linux is not ready yet for the typical home user. That was the real point he was trying to make, but because he used the linux community's arch enemy...
[November 9, 2003, 6:02]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback I originally used RH 7.1 for my introduction to Linux (I've since switched to SuSE 8.2 Pro) and totally abandoned Windoze on the desktop and, in my opinion, it is ready for the home user. I'd have thought that with the multitude of high-profile...
[November 5, 2003, 9:03]
Debunking Some Linux Myths
Blog Comment For this myth, I will ignore all Linux distros that are not made to be home user friendly (and I will ignore that I disagree with your Windows/Windows, Linux/Windows similarity comparisons). If all Linux's Windows user difficulty was centered...
[October 27, 2009, 7:59]
Red Hat broadens desktop push
News We will introduce Linux to a user population that we have historically been unable to reach," including home and school users, Szulik said in a conference call on Tuesday while discussing the company's financial results for its second quarter of...
[September 19, 2002, 8:08]
Linux finally coming of age?
Talkback Having been a user of Ubuntu since version 4.10 I have been really impressed by its performance and ease of use considering what is it, a Linux operating system. If the same applications were available on Linux I would make a wholesale switch no...
[May 2, 2007, 10:53]
Use VSFTP for a secure FTP server
News Now, when you attempt to connect to the server as a Linux/UNIX user, you will be placed in that user's home directory. VSFTP uses the Linux/UNIX "nobody" user as a part of the default configuration. On most Linux/UNIX operating systems, this user...
[January 22, 2003, 9:37]
A challenge to all Linux Users in the World
Blog Comment That will require some hacking VB Scripts into forms that the Linux server can feed into the Windows boxes and have properly authenticate as if it was coming from an authorised admin user on a Windows computer.
[May 31, 2007, 20:27]
User acceptance 'key' in desktop Linux migrations
News OpenOffice.org and Linux for their home PC and will provide free support for home users. The Germany city plans to migrate its 3,500 desktops from Office to OpenOffice.org on Windows by 2009 and will start its migration to Linux afterwards.
[November 30, 2005, 11:05]
Vista, like in out in left field.
Talkback Open/Star Office is the biggest helper a Linux IT admin has, if he can train the typical office worker to use OO, then most of the work to train the user is done. Maybe get everybody used to the home folder idea even on the Windows boxes so its not...
[November 21, 2007, 18:05]
Letting in Linux review
Reviews Most Linux versions also include the XFree86 X Window System graphical user interface and at least one Windows-based desktop environment, typically KDE or GNOME, which should make Windows and Mac users feel at home.
[July 12, 2004, 9:40]
Open standards push Mannheim to Linux
News Mannheim is a long-term user of Unix, which has meant that the migration to Linux is easier than for organisations that predominantly use Microsoft software. It is so important that the Mannheim IT department is providing every city employee with...
[November 29, 2005, 17:15]
IBM chases a PC's soul
News IBM conducted its tests on a 60GB iPod photo using Knoppix, a Linux software derivative, as an auto-configuration OS, VMware Workstation as the virtual machine monitor and an x86 PC as the encrypted virtual machine.
[August 15, 2005, 9:30]
