Re: SEUL: Installation steps

[Barry Karas <bkaras@flinet.com>]

On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Micah Yoder wrote:
> 
> > SEUL stands to Simple END USER Linux. End users will not want
> > to recompile the kernel just to install something. This is why
> > we would have modules enabled as part of the default install.
> 
> Well, for a lot of things, the kernel simply has to be recompiled.  Why
> can't we make a nice program (actually, isn't there already one?) that
> knows most of the things that should be included, but allows the user to
> enable or disable something?  The program could then make an "emergency
> disk" to restore the system in the event of a messup.  Remember, we're
> talking about at least somewhat intelligent users here, not complete
> idiots.  They should be able to run a simple program to do this.

Don't forget, never OVERestimate the intelligence of the people.  Also,
is SEUL an acronym for simple Linux for end users, or Linux for simple end
users?


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