“I have heard comments from Linux is for smart people to You are
right when I comment that the installation process should not be as
hard as it sometimes is.“Now, before I regale you with my latest tale, I should point
out that I have been using Linux since the early 1990s when you did
have to be a rocket scientist to install it. In fact many of the
early network drivers for the 3Com boards came out of NASA and
their use of Linux. Compiling applications was routine and
debugging the compile errors usually took longer than the actual
process of compiling. If you were going to use Linux with more than
what the distribution installed for you (which was sometimes barely
more than the kernel, a shell and vi or emacs), you had to be
smart. I installed a number of Slackware and Red Hat systems during
the early days, mainly for fun, eventually settling on the Red Hat
model for my preferred distribution.”
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