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> LOL. *Right. *Bye, troll.
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> "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

Given that this *is* an unmoderated group I don't think you get to say
"Bye" until I say I am leaving.

It is the truth that the first distro of Linux I ran was Slackware .
99b14 (downloaded from my lonestar SunOS account at UTSA using SLIP)
but I have not been a steady Linux user since then. If I had, I am
sure that I wouldn't be here complaining about Linux; I would just
make it do what I need it to do. The point of my post was that most
people do not want to have to interact with their systems at the
command line level and want things to be as easy as possible. I knew
I needed to go find an RPM. When I downloaded it to my desktop and
opened it up, why didn't it get opened by a package manager so that it
when the dependecy problem showed up it could say "Additional support
files are needed for this package, would you like to retrieve them?"
The system knew it was an RPM. Even emerge on gentoo knows how to go
and get missing dependencies.

I chose Ubuntu to try because that is the distro getting all the hype
about being the flavor of Linux for the masses that is easy enough to
make people comfortable switching from Windows. I chose Fedora as my
second attempt because RH has one of the better track records of
stability and acceptance by corporate decision makers whose jobs
depends on making right choices.

I admit that I am using slightly older hardware. Unfortunately for
Linux, it doesn't get to choose what hardware people will attempt to
run it on and it is the Linux community's own fault that it has been
ported to everything this side of a Babbage mechanical computer. Many
people I know think that Linux can run on and support anything. It
isn't my fault that the small footprint and lower resource
requirements of Linux are trumpeted by the media and my 5 year old
machine is the perfect candidate for a Linux system as it sure as hell
won't run Vista.