Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:29:46 -0600 | From | Eli Carter <> | Subject | Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution) |
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"Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > Charles Cazabon <charlesc@discworld.dyndns.org>: > > Yes, and yes. Aunt Tillie is running Linux because someone installed a > > distribution for her. > > You don't know that. Maybe she installed it herself.
From a box she bought at CompUSA (or equiv.). She is dependant upon the distro maker for the service they provide to her... that's what she's paying them for.
> > She is never going to need anything out of her kernel that her vendor-shipped > > update kernels do not provide. > > *You can't know that.* > > And your belief that you *can* know it is a key part of the elitist > developer psychology and implicit assumptions that keeps Linux mostly > inaccessible to the Aunt Tillies of the world.
Then she needs a better distribution, or at least one that caters to her needs. If there isn't such a distribution for her, she is no longer "Aunt Tillie", but has become "Aun7 71LL13" ;)
Ahem, sorry, couldn't resist. :) I'll be quiet now.
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