From: Mike N. 

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:20:01 -0400, "Gary Britt"
 wrote:

>You know reading the multitude of threads springing up suddenly about doing
>things with Linux and it makes me wonder if its ready for mass desktop use,
>even now after many years of steady improvement.

  It's close for some people who only need E-mail, Internet, and Word
Processing.  Key points: you still have to have a local Linux support
person.   From that point of view, it only makes sense for home systems of
people who also use it for work - the employees of the state of
Massachusetts if they all move to Linux for example.   Otherwise, the Mac
makes it the most friendly.

> Theses messages make it
>clear there are many secret command line incantations that one must know to
>do many things.

   RedHat is not the most advanced in terms of GUI-everything.  Other
distributions are better in the GUI area.   My requirements are different -
like absolutely being able to run, not being disabled by the whim of the OS
manufacturer, and pretested, tightly controlled updates.    I can move my
current development into another distribution if necessary.

   There are GUI ways of doing things that I have not investigated since I
want to know how to script things from the command line when I get to that point.

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