Marrow

Hi All,There are several reasons why Linux can not be as popular as Windows is. I think mainly the concept of its birth tells it all. it was made by developers for developers.For example lets look at one of the most important features of windows: the automatic hardware detection. Like someone ahs pointed on it before, you simply plug in a flash disk, and voil?, it works. Nothing to do with it. But how it works for linux: you plug it in, check the sdX slots, and if you found it, you mount it to the filesystem. this is not user friendly. Don't get me wrong, this post is made on a Debian Linux, so I like these features. I like to know what is happening under my hands, and I am mostly also curious about the why.But because most people use only the basic programs in a computer (e.g. Office, internet), they require an idiot proof user interface.Besides, there are some Linux distributions, which intent is to make it as similar in look and usage to Windows as possible. I am not sure this will help, because in my opinion, for this they would need to give up (at least partially) the very concept of Linux.But maybe it is worthy... What do you think?I have read the previous posts, and there were some paragraphs regarding to Vista. Can someone let me know more about it? I little of it. I have seen some skins, some demos, and heard about some features, but that is all. Is anyone more informed than me? I am sure you are. Give me a hand with this

Hi All,I started to deal with Java and jsp about a month ago. As I still consider myself as a rookie, I have read lots of tutorials, howtos about jsp, java and applets.In every JDK installation there is written to set the PATH variable (or JAVA_HOME and CLASSPATH variable, in case of linux). If you do that, then there is no need to go to the Java/bin folder for compiling (or for any other program launching).I hope this helps someone.Regards,Marrow