Re: [Full-Disclosure] Anti-MS drivel

Valdis.Kletnieks_at_vt.edu
Date: 01/18/04

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    To: James Patterson Wicks <pwicks@oxygen.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:25:43 -0500

    On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 15:47:44 EST, James Patterson Wicks <pwicks@oxygen.com> said:

    > Linux is just not ready for prime time. By prime time I mean on the
    > homes of the American public. Regular home consumers don't want to have
    > to learn a new language to use e-mail or play games. They want to be
    > able to update a security hole without having to compile something.

    Well.. if you're on a RedHat box, you run up2date and it gives you a nice little
    gui to download and install the RPMs. Even gives you a flashing exclamation point
    on the menu bar if there's updates available. You're on Debian, you 'apt-get'
    the updates, and I'm sure there's a gui for that too.

    The only people who have to compile anything are the people who compiled it
    from source the first time. And in fact, that's the whole *point* of a Linux
    DISTRIBUTION - so you don't have to run Linux-from-scratch.

    Linux isn't quite ready for Aunt Tilley yet. But having to compile stuff to
    install patches isn't one of the reasons.

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