Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:30:49 -0400
From: "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] some computer humor ...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 4/19/2011 9:18 PM, mark wrote:
> Michael Walsh wrote:
>> http://theoatmeal.com/blog/fix_computer
>
> Bull. Any distro of Linux for more than a decade has been shove in a
> disk and install. Oh, and a few years ago, someone was installing Linux
> on his girlfriend's computer, dual boot, and noted that it took 2.5
> hours and 8 changes of CD for Windows, while it took 1.5 hours and three
> CDs (all it needed) for Linux.

My last Linux install was Ubuntu Server Edition.  One DVD, in the drive,
boot...Linux is running.  Tell Linux to install itself, wait a bit,
answer some questions (similar to the sort that Windows asks...stuff
like, "where do you want to install?  Use the whole disk?  Pick the
features you like or hit return for defaults, what account name do you
want to use?  What password?...please wait...", then, when it said to,
remove the DVD and boot up from the HD.

There was the usual updating that happens with every OS once it was
running, but that was pretty much automatic.  Two commands and it was
taken care of in a few minutes (apt-get update, apt-get upgrade).  Total
time was about an hour and a half on a netbook class machine, but an
hour of that was the HD format and software installing during the
"please wait" section, and I was having dinner so I don't care.

To be fair, installing Win7 64 Pro was almost as fast...but that was
done on a desktop system with a clock rate over twice that of the Ubuntu
system (3.6 Ghz vs 1.6).

-- Mike B.