Re: Problems getting Linux into homes.

[Chris Jones <linux stow-jones co uk>]

Eric Diamond wrote:

> OK, Well I haven't read it and from the past two replies, I don't think
> I have to.
>
> Whether it was staged or not (and with his knowledge or not, from what's
> already been said he obviously wasn't the sharpest tack in the box) is
> moot.
>
> Unfortunately, among those of us <big collective here> who are most
> knowledgable about linux, are the only people who remember what it was
> like configuring sound and video (and networks) in the MS-DOS and pre
> Windows 98 days. Newcomers don't realize the hell our users used to put
> us through! You think you've got it bad now. Pffft! In your dreams!
>
>  
... and I remember (almost fondly) of getting down on hands and knees 
threading ribbon cable between a new Apple II and our 16.5Mb fileserver 
:) - that was in 1979 I think.

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