Wonderful Idea!
So when do we start!
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robert
Michael Jinks wrote:
>
> 20:35 6/24/98 -0400, Dale Leonard wrote:
> > >If RH makes X windows a little easier to configure, then MS will have
> > >NOTHING on Linux, as most people (esp. newbies) are uncomfortable with
> > >the command line interface.
>
> Here's a thought: There are already two "specialized" versions of Linux
> coming out of RedHat: Extreme Linux and that shrinkwrapped secure web
> server package. These are both good ideas, but not relevant to end
> users nearly as much as to the commercial and research types. Caldera
> has their SCO, er, I mean OpenLinux package, and I'm sure there are
> others. The gist is that, here again, "Windows95 is not the metric."
> These are all aimed at the people who make the choice "NT or UNIX or
> Novell," not the people who choose between PC's and Mac's.
>
> What if (and I won't be surprised if RH does this when the gnome and E
> get a little further along) there were another "specialized version" of
> Linux -- call it "Desktop Linux" -- that maybe came with nicely-tweaked
> GUI settings, all tuned up to feature some productivity apps in a nice
> clickable display fresh out of the box. It wouldn't be that different
> from what you can already do, except that the package could come with a
> lot of mods that are now thought of as personal tweaks. Not unlike what
> VAR's do with Windows, except that the story doesn't have to end once
> you get it home; it would still be Linux after all, with all the
> flexibility intact, but with fewer of the decisions to be made up front.
>
> Now, that does nothing to address the issue of Grandma setting up her
> own computer, but I kind of think that if Grandma can set up 95, she
> could set up RH5.1 (or even 4.2 for that matter -- fdisk isn't _that_
> hard). What it would do, though, is take some of the slop out of the
> VAR stage of the game. I think it's generally agreed that marketing is
> a bigger obstacle for us now than usability. If more VAR's could be
> presented with shrinkwrapped boxes that they could blow onto hundreds of
> machines, quickly turning those machines into Grandma-compatible
> desktops without ever having to run vi, they might be less nervous about
> offering Linux.
>
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