[osol-mktg] Re: Solaris For Home Users

[Richard L. Hamilton]

Is even a Mac _that_ painless?  While a lot of needless
annoyances could indeed be simplified, do you really think
you would do yourself a service even if it _were_ (sort of)
possible to be that...[searching for a nice word] uninvolved?
That is, there will always be choices that one could make
better if one were involved and informed than if one
just took the defaults (however reasonable they might
attempt to be for the majority of cases).  And there will
probably always be possibilities (add-on hardware or additional
functionality of some sort) that are supported, but not to the
level of being painless.  Even if out-of-the-box were to become
usable for most cases, if you want to go past that, you'll have
to be prepared to learn _something_ about the tools you use.


[...]
> i want solaris as a big zip file, download it to my
> computer, unzip the file, burn it to a cd, shutdown
> my computer, insert the cd restart, and type the word
> setup, turn off the monitor and go to the park. then
> i want to come back home provide the instructions on
> how i connect to the internet. i will then sign up
> for the $1 dollar a month live update thing. i must
> never again have to fiddle around with my pc, worry
> about security and all of the other mess. it must go
> on line and download all of the necessary updates
> etc. i am not a programmer, i am a customer service
> agent, i just want to turn it on, send an email,
> browse the internet, do some shopping, pay my bill,
> not worry about viruses, not worry about updates,
> turn it off and go back to my family in that
> beautiful park. can this be done? and no more version
> numbers. can i get some feed back people, please!
 
 
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