On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Paul Johnson wrote:
> The problem with sending out more than one distro is that 1) We've now
> tried selling Lindows, SuSE, Knoppix and Debian and Debian's the only
> one that sells, and 2) company policy dictates that we support what we
> sell. Lindows doesn't sell, SuSE and Knoppix don't sell and we don't
> want to support them, and ubuntu would be yet another distro to learn.
"support" comes in many flavors and levels
- install the cd into the random hardware
- how come xxx works or doesn't work
- how do i do this and that
- how do i patch it
- how do i get it (support/help/blah) for "free" :-)
....
i'd throw in slackware/redhat/fedora into that same pot, and remove
lindows in our supported "pot-o-linux"
to me... linux distro cd's should be free, at least the "gpl" part of it
- if you are local in silly-con valley .. you can burn your
own free cd ... ( i don't want to baby sit the cdrom burner )
- i have the major distro's original iso image from their
respective sites
- our mirror'ing project is to take the previous *.iso images
and apply the latest official patches to it to make a -xxx updated
iso images
- getting the mirroring/patching scripts just right takes more time than
expected and is a moving target of where ot mirror from
c ya
alvin
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