CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE:

TW>>> distribution of LINUX that really took the Uniniated Home
TW>>> Market seriously and put out a REAL Beginners edition. 

->> You insist that KNOPPIX isn't a beginner's Linux but really
->> it is as much as Windows would be for the uninitiated
->> computer user. 

WC> Easier. 

CA> I'm afraid we've _all_ been spoiled by Plug-n-Pray and GUIs and
CA> cutesy little icons to 'click' on. It's been a long while for even
CA> "the last of the breed" since we used the command-line-interface 
CA> and a text editor to configure our hardware/software. Autoinstalls 
CA> are the 'norm' and most want "pushbutton" computing. :-(

For some folks,  maybe.  Next set of hardware changes I am aiming at here
is to move the sound card from one box to another,  and to re-install the
SCSI card that I will be using to support my scanner.  This will involve
really extensive editing,  basically going in there and either commenting
out or uncommenting a line in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.  :-)

That's with the current (PCI) sound card.  First one I got working before
that was an ISA card,  and required me to run pnpdump first,  and then
isapnp to set things up properly,  fiddling with various parts of the
config file before it was working properly.  And it did work properly until
that particular card died on me.

CA> My daughter dropped to DOS on a machine at work to move some files
CA> and the people at work panicked and asked her what "that" was. They
CA> had never seen the DOS command line before. :-) 

Heh.

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