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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. Eli --------------------. Real Users find the one combination of bizarre Eli Carter \ input values that shuts down the system for days. eli.carter(a)inet.com `------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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