Re: LPP (was: The new X-Kernel !)

[Mike Fedyk]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 03:33:07PM +0100, MichaelM wrote:
> From: "Abraham vd Merwe" <[e-mail]>
> 
> >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.

Mike