Probably redhat, only linux distro that had such a version number I know of. At 11:35 AM 12/5/01 -0500, you wrote: >May i suggest that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing? Case in point, >David, ... what, pray, is linux 5.2?? There's no such thing as far as I >know. > > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, David Poehlman wrote: > >> I have not been watching this thread but just tuned in and have some >> passages I want to respond to below with responses marked with dp: >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "John G. Heim (26 2-9887)" <jheim@doit.wisc.edu> >> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:14 AM >> Subject: Re: Hello! >> >> >> At 04:41 PM 12/3/01 -0500, you wrote: >> >install. >> >May I now simply suggest that you are wrong if for no other reason than >> >that I blind person will be very hard pressed to install Windows at all >> >without assistance? >> >> I'm not sure what I said that you think this disproves. My point is that >> it >> takes more knowledge to run a linux machine than a Windows machine. I >> never >> said windows can be installed without sighted assistance. The original >> questioner doesn't have a speech synthesizer so he can't install either >> linux or windows without sighted assistance. >> dp: it is possible to install windows without sighted assistance but you >> need to know how to do it. I am not certain that this is the case with >> linux but would wager that if the propper planning were done and the >> propper scripts available, it could be. >> >> About six months ago, I had a lightning strike at my home and lost the >> hard >> drive on both my Windows 95 and linux 5.2 machines. I bought 2 new hard >> drives and got Windows millenium and red hat 7.1 from the university. >> Since >> I don't have a synthesizer, I needed sighted assistance for both >> installs. >> The linux install took a lot longer and took much more technical >> knowledge. >> >> But that's okay. Of course it takes more knowledge to install linux than >> windows millenium. Linux is way more powerful than windows millenium. >> >> dp: I take it that you mean that linux out of the box is way more >> powerful than windows millennium or any windows system for that matter >> and I won't take issue with that. I would say though that again, with >> propper nknow how, you can do anything in windows that you can do in >> linux I am a windows user but a linux fan by the way so I am not >> bashing linux but want to keep the record streight. >> >> Windows is "easier" mailnly because doesn't do as much as linux. A good >> example of this point is file permissions. Can you even set file >> permissions in windows millenium? It doesn't really matter because you >> don't need them anyway. >> dp: you can set file permissions but not in the way you think of file >> permissions. you can tell windows that you want files to behave in >> certain ways such as be hidden, system or read only files if you know >> how to do it. >> >> If you're going to use linux, you probably need to learn about file >> permissions. How hard is that? Well, for some people it might be hard. >> >> Comparing apples to oranges? Yes! In fact, that's partly my point. Linux >> does bzillions of things windows doesn't. That's why it takes so much >> more >> knowledge to use. If you're going to use linux, you should be prepared >> to >> go through the process of acquiring that knowledge. Not everybody is >> going >> to want to do that. >> dp: I'd like a list of things that windows does not do that linux does. >> I can find a way to do them. >> >> Note too that my own example is rather esoteric. Most machines come with >> Windows pre-installed. Even if you replace the hard drive, you can >> usually >> boot from the old one, install windows on the new one, and then reboot >> from >> the new one -- all without sighted assistance. >> >> dp: none the less, I have started from an oss less hd and installed >> windows from scratch with little to no sighted assistance and no screen >> reader. >> >> -- >> John G. 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