Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2001 12:13:26 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: LPP (was: The new X-Kernel !) |
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On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 03:33:07PM +0100, MichaelM wrote: > From: "Abraham vd Merwe" <abraham@2d3d.co.za> > > >See the difference between the O/S in question and the one you might be > >confusing it with is that this O/S was (and still is) written and being > >maintained by technical people. These kind of people like to know what's > >going on. It also happens that the primary audience for these people's work > >is themselves (us) and NOT novices - that my friend, is a bonus, not the > >sole aim of the exercise. > > Have you ever thought that people get great difficulties when they try to > change to linux, e.g the partitioning, 3d games graphics ;) etc.. > > ... therefore, only technical and technical-wanna-be people remain? > > It's quite clear to me. >
X in the kernel won't help with that.
The progress bars will make it *look* less technical.
The setup of hardware like 3d graphics is up to the distribution. Those are the people you should be talking to.
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