Re: [tlug] State of "Linux" documentation [was: Books]

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 09:57:16AM +0900, Edward Middleton wrote:
> >  
> 
> The problem is that most current distributions are designed to capture the 
> windows market and so aim to keep users in their pretty distro specific GUI 
> creations away from all that UNIX commonness.

Yuppers.  For instance, most Fedora developers seem to assume you'll use
Gnome.  :)  Which is interesting, because on the testing list, they all
use mutt as their mail client.  

There's an interesting quote around (I saw it on a BSD forum), to the
effect that Unix doesn't keep its users from doing something stupid
because that might also keep them from doing something smart.  

That seems to be changing however--Fedora did something to make it hard
to log into X as root, and Alan Cox posted back something like, , What's
the point of this, to make sure you can't fix a totally borked system?

Ubunutu, with its "You're too stupid to be root." 

Etc. 

Lordy, I guess I'm getting old.  And I walked 5 miles barefoot through
snow to school--and it was uphill both ways.  
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