Re: [LUG] Re: Teenagers, bewilderable middle-aged women; distributing Ubuntu

[Paul Sutton <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's important to get across that Linux is the kernel,  GNU is a set of 
tools and a philosopy of free software (comments / corrections on this 
welcome)
I think the barrier between kernel and shell tools, kde, X is getting 
clouded, partly thanks to distros,  it's important to get across that 
when say k3b crashes and bombs it's k3b that has done that. and the 
kernel is still running happily, 

How often does an application crash, and take the whole system with it, 
to the point where you have to hit reset,  and you have tried to ssh or 
telnet in to kill the bad process.  

I do agree however you need to get across its stability, however there 
are other advantages, does not get affeced by viruses in the same way,  
again it's 100% virus proof, or 100% hack proof,  but alot of that has 
to do with the user, and how the user treats security, (type of 
password, where that password is stored, i.e not on a post it note next 
to the computer etc).

Paul


Chris Hands wrote:

> I also think it's important to give people a correct view of GNU/Linux
> before they use it. i.e. don't say something like "it never crashes"
> because then when something goes wrong it will put them of as their
> expectations were higher (and some application is guaranteed to crash
> for them at some point)
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