Messages in this thread |  | | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Subject | Re: [Very-OT] Re: Nazi kernels | Date | Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:38:57 +0100 |
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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.
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