Re: Walmart PC's with Linux SUCK.

[Hendrik van Hees]

Ditch Brodie wrote:


> FreeBSD
>     gunzip -c tarball-file.tar.gz
>     cd tarball-file
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ./configure --with-perl --libs-some\thing\too\long\to\remember
> --still-anoth er switch
>     make
>     make install
>     (*now hope it all works, the only docs around require 10 years of
> experience with unix to read)
>     (*little or no support if any even exists)
> ====================================================================
> 
> That is why *nixes are still not ready for the masses...!

Why, can't "the masses" type or copy those lines in a prompt?


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