[Tfug] LNLFA Part 2

[Glen Pfeiffer]

On 18 Jan 2010, erich wrote:
> I guess what I'm saying is that MS succeptability to attacks, 
> especially to naive users, is the only thing that keeps Linux 
> around as an alternative. However Linux is asking for trouble. 
> The ever expanding complexity of the kernel and other 
> applications makes it more difficult to install and integrate 
> hardware to do what you want it to. See my original post. Since 
> my last successful install (10 months ago), there have been 6 
> upgrades of the kernel 2.6.25 to 2.6.31. Never mind counting 
> revisions, (r1,r2..rx)

I believe that your statement is too broad to be true because 
amateurs can use distro supplied binaries. Therefore they can use 
Linux.

But what I believe *may* be true in what you said is that 
compiling highly complex software from upstream is too difficult 
for most amateurs.

-- 
Glen