[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill for this link. ]
“As a small contribution to the free source movement, allow
me to assemble some motley “Rules” of user friendliness, as I step
on a few land mines in the Red Hat Linux 6.1 installation and
operation.”
“I want the “vanilla” install. That is, the install for
beginners, in the most simple way possible. No frills. Just the
basics. Get the job done. I open up my Red Hat 6.1 “Standard
edition” box (although the box does not actually have a label that
identifies it as such) and open up the manual entitled
“Installation Guide.” …Not till page 18 do I find a sentence
telling that beginners should follow the “Workstation” class
installation…which begs my first “rule”…
“Rule 1: Put the beginner stuff at the beginning.”
“… let us Embrace reality… Linux is not yet user friendly.
There’s still a lot of work to do. Yet, we have great reason for
hope.”