On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 20:02 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: > On 05/04/2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On the command line, if you saved the commands - or got them > from an instructional listing in the first place, you just > paste the same set of commands into a terminal window. > > Three comments from me: > > (1) Regarding what Les wrote (above), I can say that the three Wiki > "Kernel" HowTos have been written in such a way that the command lines > shown in those articles *can* be copied (from a GUI) and pasted (into > a CLI/TUI). I'm sure that same is true for many other WIki articles. > > (2) We must not loose sight of what CentOS basically is. CentOS == > RHEL less RH. A stable, server orientated OS. On the fora, we often > see evidence that CentOS is believed to be similar to *other* distros > (that are more suitable for laptops & "home" use) and that it, CentOS, > can be loaded onto typical laptops or home PCs. Then the grumbling > starts about the non-operation of a bottom-of-the-range NIC or video > controller or how multi-media doesn't work straight out of the box. > The complaints that really irritate me are those that end with > ". . . . whilst 'foo' (or 'bar' or 'xyzzy' or 'y2') runs o.k. on my > hardware. So why doesn't CentOS?" "So why doesn't CentOS?" CentOS is for High End Server Hardware. The most attracted feature it has to a new user is "my computer has been running for a whole week. "Stability" Windows begs for that. The most disliked option for CentOS that I see was the option to not do a spin of the Client, Workstation and Server versions. Ohh, how it was so easy for me to tell a client get the Workstation version and Select install everything. I guess the reason for doing so was not enough resources. Similar to other Distros: CentOS Does not even begin to compare to the usability of Ubuntu. But what can you say? Ubuntu is backed by a Multi Million Dollar Company. Multimedia: I'll save that one for later. :-) I have an idea for that... > (3) The CentOS-docs list. Anne, the last item I received was dated > April 3rd. > > Alan. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ~/john OpenPGP Sig:BA91F079