From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@gams.at>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Very-OT] Re: Nazi kernels
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:38:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200111120938.fAC9cvC32473@frodo.gams.co.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1011112093015.27188A-100000@virgo.cus.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:33:18 GMT." <Pine.SOL.3.96.1011112093015.27188A-100000@virgo.cus.cam.ac.uk>
In message <Pine.SOL.3.96.1011112093015.27188A-100000@virgo.cus.cam.ac.uk>, Ant
on Altaparmakov wrote:
[ Un*x admins know what they are doing ]
>Admins know what they are doing. Your average person trying Linux for the
>first time doesn't... You are forgetting that Linux is actually becoming
>useful as a desktop OS and a wider audience is starting to use it.
If the average person installs Linux, s/he is the admin and above
definiton applies. Even if s/he does not know what s/he is doing, s/he must
(and will) learn it. Now we can discuss if its better to learn it the
hard (and fast) way or not.
>But considering you already get a warning message on insertion that will
>do fine, no need to ask are you sure. GUI configuration tools can always
>do the "are you sure bit" if they want to.
ACK. If some installer software wants to ask, he can now.
Bernd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-12 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-11 3:34 lobo
2001-11-11 3:05 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-11 3:47 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-17 1:10 ` Jim Roland
2001-11-11 4:03 ` John Cavan
2001-11-11 4:09 ` Panagiotis Moustafellos
2001-11-11 5:35 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-11-11 5:58 ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-11-11 12:07 ` [Very-OT] " Anton Altaparmakov
2001-11-11 12:28 ` samson swanson
2001-11-11 23:49 ` [RFC-ONT (on topic)] Modprobe enhancement (was Re: "Dance of the Trolls") Jeff V. Merkey
2001-11-12 0:06 ` CaT
2001-11-12 0:24 ` [OT] " J Sloan
2001-11-12 0:34 ` CaT
2001-11-12 14:01 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-11-12 2:19 ` Keith Owens
2001-11-12 3:57 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-11-12 9:13 ` [Very-OT] Re: Nazi kernels Bernd Petrovitsch
2001-11-12 9:33 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-11-12 9:38 ` Bernd Petrovitsch [this message]
2001-11-11 10:51 ` Alex Buell
2001-11-11 13:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-11 16:46 ` Idea (Was: Re: .... kernels) degger
2001-11-11 16:50 ` Nazi kernels Tom Diehl
2001-11-11 19:07 ` Matt
2001-11-12 13:23 ` Marco Colombo
2001-11-12 9:13 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2001-11-12 10:27 ` andrea gelmini
2001-11-12 10:32 ` DevilKin
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