Re: Linux ease of use

Thus quoth Peter Flynn on Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:42:50PM +0100:
> On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 00:17, Alex Netherton wrote:
> 
> > My question; why can't the developers of Linux (and I know there are
> > millions of them) develop some way that you can download a file, or
> > find a file on CD, click it and it installs itself?

Linux does not have a command named 'click'; maybe you mean 'clock'?

> Because the designers and developers don't believe that it should be
> simple. With Linux, you are expected to know what files go where,
> and how to install from a .tar.gz file. They believe if you can't
> type tar zxf foo.tar.gz; cd foo; ./configure; make; make install
> then you shouldn't be using Linux at all :-)

Often, Linux gets as simple as just that... But Linux is very flexible
and easy to tweak, so installation needs a bit of manual work. 

> Some vendors have tried to make it easier (RPM, apt-get, etc) but 
> because everyone has their own ideas about where things should go, 
> there is not (and never will be) any standard place, and hence no

The Linux File System Hierarchy standard tells you what goes where.

> standard method. I'm afraid that's the penalty we pay for an Open
> Source system: everyone is free to do as they wish.
> 
Kind regards,


Daniel von Asmuth

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	van microsoft?
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