Re: [LUG] Promoting GNU/Linux through computer shop

[Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kai Hendry wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:52:34PM +0100, Terence McCarthy wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:34:52 +0300
> > Kai Hendry <hendry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > If people were on broadband, wouldn't it be great if DCLUG members could
> > > administrate their machines in some community fashion?
> >
> > What did you intend by your question? It would seem to have some potential, and I'd be interested in your ideas.
>
>
> Administrating a machine is hard.

Administering a Windows machine is especially hard :)
> A "user" is not supposed to need to administrate the computer. It's a
> Unix model.

It's also the model of quite a few other operating systems.
A model which Microsoft decided to abandon with Windows.

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