Karen, what if I asked you for a list of all DOS programs by category.
What would your response be? Do you think you could provide that? Linux
is a huge, huge project. Together, millions of people have written
thousands of packages for it.
Maybe the problem is that it's not clear what you're trying to
accomplish. Linux has many advantages over DOS. One of those advantaes
is the huge number of applications you can choose from. It adds the
complexity of having to choose from many different packagesthat all do
similar things.
On 3/5/2013 11:39 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
smiling,
I am in the dictionary under in most cases.
I detailed what happened on the install attempt. I agree fixing is not
hard if one knows what one is doing...witch's been my point.
As for the nicely packaged aspect of Linux, I am not sure everyone
agrees on that.
In fact you are expected to install from unknown sites if you are going
to upgrade and the like.
Do not mistake me, as I said I applaud all the versatility. What I do
not get is the difficulty in reaching that versatility.
I asked on the debian list for example to see a list of all the packages
by category...no one Could provide this.
Indeed the choice of wordpefect is a choice, you might not install
every Dos program out there...but you can find understandable
information and choose on your own what might be worth exploring.
because a few have hand picked for you what you really need, if you are
new you might never find what might be useful.
Ease in understanding is my point here.
Individual choice should be easy to engage in, no matter if others do
not think they need the program.
I mean how many people use lillypond here? Or movgrabe for that matter?
I do not expect anyone else to have to use it just because I want to.
Karen
On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Tony Baechler wrote:
On 3/4/2013 6:47 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
That is exactly what I hope I will not need to do.
although I feared that might be needful.
I have 6 or more DVD images of the entire debian squeeze structure.
None
of
which got used because someone else in America put some of debian on a
hard
drive and mailed it to me.
Actually, doing a new install isn't that hard. It mostly does the
right thing automatically. you only need the first DVD.
I have no idea fully what is here, and again not finding the in person
training have no real way of discovering without risking damaging the
install already here.
Even if you break something, fixing it isn't that hard in most cases.
It is funny, since Paul brought up the 63 k packages in debian.
I asked on the Debian discussion list about installing the entire
thing,
so
I could in theory examine the say 20 media players included, or
discover
programs I might not know exist that might be useful.
I was told that no no one really uses all of it. In fact even on the
speak
up list Samuel would say, you do not need more than the first couple of
images.
What I do not understand though is why?
Well, why not use Wordstar instead of WordPerfect? Why not use w3m
instead of Lynx? You wouldn't install every DOS or Windows program
out there. The difference is that Linux distros have everything
nicely packaged for you so you don't have to install it from source
and/or fetch it from some unknown site.
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