From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:06:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:05:50 -0500 Received: from blackhole.compendium-tech.com ([206.55.153.26]:40186 "EHLO sol.compendium-tech.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:05:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:05:26 -0800 (PST) From: "Dr. Kelsey Hudson" To: "J . A . Magallon" cc: Michael Meissner , "'linux-scsi @ vger . kernel . org'" , "'linux-kernel @ vger . kernel . org'" Subject: Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order? In-Reply-To: <20010117003205.A711@werewolf.able.es> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote: > You want to make things SOOO easy for a 'dummy' user, and that user will never > use them. The average user you are targetting says: 'daddy, buy me a PC to > run Quake and do my school jobs' or 'please, dear vendor, I want a PC to > do my housekeeping'. I have seen so many cases (A buys PC, A tries to run > brand new racing game that does not work, A goes shop and says: don't know > what's wrong with this PC, look at it and call me when MyCarRacingGame > works...). Yup. Dummies dont need things to be done for them; they need to learn how to do it themselves. That, IMO, is the beauty of UNIX. Nothing is sugar coated, and almost everything gets back down to the K.I.S.S. approach. > Average users you are targetting with that automagical > card detection even do not know there are SCSI and IDE disks. They just > want a 30Gb ide disk to install linux and play. If they involve with SCSI > and ID numbers and multiple cards and so on they can read some docs and > rebuild a kernel. Amen! I couldn't have said it better myself. Kelsey Hudson khudson@ctica.com Software Engineer Compendium Technologies, Inc (619) 725-0771 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/