On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 22:44:00 +0200, Emmanuel Florac
<eflorac@imaginet.fr> wrote:

>Old legend. Stupid windows newbies complain hoooow Linux is difficult and
>arcane. However, for a skilled unix administrator it's a breeze. Current
>distributions install in less than an hour and just work. They recognize
>out of the box SCSI cards, Fibre Channel cards, Giga Ethernet cards, RAID
>cards and autoconfigure everything. Linux is WAY EASIER to install than
>Solaris, IRIX or whatver Unix you like.

This is a double edged sword. The more automated and "Boxed" the OS
is, the more PITA it becomes to adjust it to your needs and undestrand
it.

A "skilled unix administrator" must understand the systems under his
controll in and out and my general expierence was/is that it is easier
to do a plain barebone OS install and then expand it with inhouse
packages than to try and understand webs of dependencies, configs and
links on PnP systems.

This is not intended to be a linux-slaming, but rather a voice against
all those "GUI Installation Wizards" I see in most important distros
today (Linux folks bash FreeBSD, Solaris and others for their
text-based install nowdays, guess most of those "Sysadmins" never
installed anything from a serial console... sigh).