[Gllug] Small rant

[Henry Gilbert]

> Yep Utter Rubbish

bah.
you are well just saying it.

remember i am not building this system for myself.
i am building this system for people with high expectations.
sure they were running Windows 98 but their win-gadgets all worked.
(the fact the machine was ladden with virus is something else)

some expectations i get sometimes:

making webcam working with Yahoo (because their boyfriend/girlfriend)
uses that in Brazil.
making their relic scanner work.
making their relic webcam work.
making their Vivitar digital 3350B camera work
making their USB wifi work
making their AOL internet connection work.
or their stupid dial-up with exotic drivers requiring a kernel rebuilt.
their old BIOS not recognizing 100GB+ hard-drives
(but windows installed blissful ok in that)

so kindly do not underestimate the frustration :)

these are not proof-of-concepts.

obviously the more i do - the more i learn ways.
but i am short of challenging any of the critics
to meet a certain list of request (all of which theoretically possible)
on a machine with semi-old specs
in less then say 15 days (plenty of time don't you think?)

my point being.
if i am faced with a modern machine
such installations are a breeze.
(often new machine means the user have pretty compatible supported hardware:
HP Scanners, Epson Printer, Logitech Webcam, USB Mounting Digital
Cameras, even their tablets are supported) ...
for that just stick Mandrake and all is peachy - 15 minutes.

answering previous question:

distributions ... depends

Mandrake for very new machines
Fedora for ATI laptops like Samsung

Slackware, Debian for anything older than 4-5 years.

I am reserving Puppy Linux for seriously ancient stuff.
But I haven't touched an i386 yet.
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