I agree with all of that apart from : But it's not easy enough for your average home user yet, and may > never be.
It will be one day it'll just take 10 years or so... NB Sony is going to use Linux as the computing environment for the Play Station... Driverless devices like USB Hubs & Cameras are going to change the whole driver fiasco.... Regards, Malcolm. Malcolm Turnbull IT Manager Crocus.co.uk 01344 629661 ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Brodbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 2:31 PM Subject: RE: VNC is Powerful, could it become like Citrix > Gonna have to partly disagree, though this is getting off topic. > > Windows and Linux are equally easy if it's a sound card that's supported in > the distribution. The OS automatically detects it, installs the proper > driver, and off you go. > > If it's not, Windows has the edge. With most modern cards and modern > Windows versions, you install the card, turn on the machine, insert the CD, > and let it find the driver. Then you reboot and you're done. > > With Linux, first you pray the card is supported by someone. Then you > download a kernel patch, install it, and recompile your kernel from the > source code. Then you install the new kernel (don't forget to run LILO!), > reboot, and hope that the patch didn't break anything else, and that the > startup scripts they decided to use in your particular distribution won't be > confused by the new kernel. > > Linux is a great server OS, and it's also not bad as a centrally maintained > desktop OS if you can get around the unavailability of certain types of > software. But it's not easy enough for your average home user yet, and may > never be. > > -----Original Message----- > From: ScanMan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 8:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: VNC is Powerful, could it become like Citrix > > And you think Windows is easier? Sit a newbie down in front of a freshly > installed Windows box, and I guarantee you, he won't even get his > soundcard working. It really just depends on what you're used to. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
