Re: [SLUG] SuSE 7.2 install

From: Ed Centanni (ecentan1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Jun 27 2001 - 21:52:36 EDT


Yea, but SuSE doesn't let you play Tetris while the filesystem is
loading like Caldera. What a show stopper it is to have no entertainment
while waiting to make that last click!!! I guess Linux just isn't ready
for the average user....

Ed "pulling your leg to the hilt" Centanni

Robert Haeckl wrote:
>
> For those who envision Linux and the accompanying apps as a desktop for
> the masses, the install is often cited as a cumbersome hurdle. Although
> it would be nice to see all the major computer distributors offer Linux
> as a preinstalled option, this probably isn't going to happen any time
> soon. My experience has been that installing most boxed Linux sets has
> become almost a trivial procedure if you accept all the defaults. SuSE
> 7.2 is no different.
>
> I went to a Caldera demonstration a year or so ago showing how simple
> ("4 mouse clicks") it is to install their brand. I have to say that the
> SuSE 7.2 version was just as simple and easy to do. Configuration, if
> you opt not to accept the defaults, was straight-forward.
>

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