[Wolves] Promoting Linux

Matthew Revell wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Tue May 13 20:29:07 2003


I think it is worth discussing here because we need to know what sort of
questions we might face from prospective Linux users.

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 20:07, Peter Oliver wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2003, Matthew Revell wrote:
> 
> > An RPM just whirrs along and then you don't know quite where it's put
> > itself.
> 
> But, typically, why do you even need to know what files it's installed 
> where?  GUI programs turn up in the right menus, command-line programs 
> turn up on the path, etc.  It just works.
> 
> Well, except that you discovered that new items /don't/ seem to appear in
> the menus in KDE until you log out and back in again.  It's no good us
> bitching about it here;  you need to log it as bug with the KDE people.