Comment Did he pick an easy one? (Score 1) 432
I don't think Caldera would be a very easy distrib. to start with as a novice. I chose SUSE for precisely the reason that I don't know much about insides of PCs - I wanted a machine I could run Apache on, program Perl, use Gimp and build websites. I did it in about 40 mins and most of that was choosing stuff to install with YAST.
There have got to be distributions for all users. Most users don't care and are happy for the set-up to autoprobe all day. Let them. Some users can recite the serial numbers of their components. Let them.
Let's not forget that Journo's will exaggerate to make a better story. If this had been written by a Linux advocate it would have taken him five minutes and then he would have benn making coffee.
There have got to be distributions for all users. Most users don't care and are happy for the set-up to autoprobe all day. Let them. Some users can recite the serial numbers of their components. Let them.
Let's not forget that Journo's will exaggerate to make a better story. If this had been written by a Linux advocate it would have taken him five minutes and then he would have benn making coffee.
