Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

[Dr. Kelsey Hudson]

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                                           [e-mail] 
 Software Engineer
 Compendium Technologies, Inc                               [phone]
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