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- From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:51:35 GMT
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- papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod) writes:
-
- >>>Because that often saves (a lot of) money.
- >>
- >>I doubt it. If you insist to install the OS yourself then you better
- >>start learning how manage it.
-
- >No, no, no, no, no....OS/2, Windows, DOS etc. have PROVED that you don't
- >have to be a system administrator to install an OS.
-
- Ever heard a user got confused using FDISK and trashed his partition
- and don't know what to do ?
- Ever tried to install different mouse driver for windows and make windows
- hang ? How do you fix it ?
-
- >Why do you insist on
- >this dogma "if you aren't computer literate enough to install Unix, you
- >should pay someone to do it."
-
- Why not ? I've seen people buying PC with DOS and Windows installed, same
- with UNIX. These people don't want to know how to install DOS or Windows.
- (I know some people who don't know how to install DOS and Windows, all
- they really care is Word Perfect.)
- Also some company will sell you the machine with UNIX pre-installed.
-
- >Why not make unix easy enough to install
- >that you don't have to do either?
-
- Several people have pointed out that installing UNIX was easy.
-
- -- budi
- --
- Budi Rahardjo <Budi_Rahardjo@UManitoba.Ca>
- Unix Support - Computer Services - University of Manitoba
-