It's easy to forget...
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| caitlyn Dec 20, 2009 4:21 PM EDT |
It's easy for those of us who have been using Linux since before ther ultra user friendly distros appeared on the scene that a lot of newer Linux users won't know really basic stuff, which this really is. Of course, there are a whole lot of Linux users who will read this, see a few commands to be run at the command line and the scary word "kernel", and decide this is way beyond them. Oh, and yes, this article is clear, concise and well written. Just remember that the purpose of keeping an old kernel around is in case the new one has issues. I wouldn't be quick to purge the next-to-last kernel. |
| gus3 Dec 20, 2009 5:37 PM EDT |
Quoting:It's easy for those of us who have been using Linux since before ther ultra user friendly distros appeared*cough*Slackware*cough* |
| caitlyn Dec 20, 2009 5:40 PM EDT |
Yep, there are still advanced distros that require you to know how things work under the hood or to do configuration at the command line. Slackware, Arch, CRUX, etc... are used by a tiny percentage of Linux desktop users. FWIW, I'm running SalixOS right now, a Slackware derivative that I'm pretty impressed with. |
| tuxtom Dec 21, 2009 2:45 PM EDT |
Quoting:Just remember that the purpose of keeping an old kernel around is in case the new one has issues.If I were a new Linux user I would ask you why you would release or update my system with problematic software that has "issues". Then, as a new Linux user, I would yawn at your response and continue shopping for Windows 7 or OS X boxes at Best Buy. Even if your responses were sensible and well-articulated I, as a new Linux user, wouldn't stick around much past that first codec install before I retreated to "something that just works" at Best Buy. Quoting:a lot of newer Linux users won't know really basic stuff, which this really is.If it were that "basic" it would be handled automatically by the Update Manager and this thread would not exist. Man, I am sure glad I'm not a new Linux user. |
| jdixon Dec 21, 2009 3:10 PM EDT |
> ...as a new Linux user, wouldn't stick around much past that first codec install before I retreated to "something that just works" at Best Buy. If the stuff at Best Buy "just works", why do they need a Geek Squad? |
| bigg Dec 21, 2009 3:10 PM EDT |
@tuxtom I don't know if you're trolling, but that statement is fairly, shall we say, comprehensive. |
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