Linux still quirky but becoming friendlier

Haven't had dependency problems on Red Hat/Fedora systems since I started using apt and never had them with Debian from the beginning. And there is Synaptic interface for apt for you GUI type of people. Overall though I thought it was a fair article from someone in the mainstream press that doesn't seem to have a lot of Linux experience. I would also say that you'll probably have a "harder" time on "Windows Ready PCs" than you will with those that don't make such a claim (winmodem, winprinter, etc). A little bit of hardware research prior to the purchase goes a long way. I also run Linux on much hardware that Windows will not run on (Sparc, PPC, Alpha, MIPS, etc).

Apt on Red Hat: http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/redhat/fedora_1_apt-get_must_h...

Try this with Windows: http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net:81/

I just ordered a WRT54G for $59 a few days ago. Hasn't arrived yet, but after seeing your Beautiful WRT54G site I can't wait.

You can't beat the price and they are so versatile. I have two of the WRT54G units (a v1.1 and a v2.0). If I were to buy another one today I would get the WRT54GS which has twice the RAM, twice the Flash memory and I think it has a significantly faster CPU. This message was edited Jul 19, 2004 9:28 PM

For one I think Linux is the best thing to come along for computers in a long time. As for "its code is open for anybody to modify, users, not marketers, can get the final say in this operating system's evolution." Well, that's not entirely true. For one you have to be a user that knows how to program. The other is that not just any one can join these development teams, this is probably why some programmers decide to do their own distributions. I'm also not sure what version, outside of Slackware, that would require such tweaking. Fedora, SuSe and Lycoris install without all this outside configuration file twiddling. As far as hardware it's like Void_Main states. If it isn't winModem or some other Plug-n-Pray hardware for Windows, it works fine. By using repositories both on my on local system and several of the available online repositories I haven't had dependency issues either. For the average user that isn't playing games I'm not sure what software they would be needing. OpenOffice and a plethora of web browsers and mail clients get installed. Sure there could be more financial packages, but they will come. After all is said and done I'd rather have quirky than insecure and costly.