Philip Tellis wrote:
I didn't say anything to the contrary. I'm talking about redhat's distribution policy. They're the only distro with this problem, and unfortunately, have the largest market share among newbies.
As far as newbies are concerned, redhat is linux.
I understand how you feel Philip. I have RHEL installed in my machine only due to the course I am doing. Too many linux flavours cannot be installed together in one HDD and constant loading, reloading, formatting may damage its MBR or other sectors. My XP is the main OS where I do most of my computing like email, office, scanner, printing, surfing etc and important data is stored there. Even my linux downloads are done in XP which gives my modem above 5 Kbps speed. The linux free driver limits it to 1.5 Kbps. The vfat partition is then mounted in linux and the downloaded files are transferred. All linux related emailing is done in linux.
The newbies cannot jump straight into complex settings and compilations in linux or for that matter any OS. They have to go step by step with the simpler options first and then go deeper and deeper. The information available from the experts here is most usefull and precious and I keep all the emails intact for future reference too.
Best Wishes,
Rony.