Re: Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-03 Thread Rick Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > *** There is one thing that I see regularly come back and which I > really don't understand: Where does this urge come from for some > people to try to make everything accessible to Joe Sixpack!? Why is > that part of the total world population always the one who is u

Re: Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-03 Thread Gil Nielsen
Zoki wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, RHS Linux User wrote: > ->RedHat provides an excellent distribution for technical types but it > ->occurs to me their is an opportunity > ->for them to start to fill the Home market niche now. > > *** There is one thing that I see regularly come back and which

Re: Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-03 Thread iannaconem
> > The Linux@Home Distribution would come with the following > [omissis] > > Any thoughts on this? Any other ideas? Is RedHat already planning such a > distribution? > Would it supply Gnome only? Anyone want to work on such a distribution? > > > Jeffrey Perry > Suse 5.2 - http://www.sus

Re: Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-03 Thread Zoki
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, RHS Linux User wrote: ->RedHat provides an excellent distribution for technical types but it ->occurs to me their is an opportunity ->for them to start to fill the Home market niche now. *** There is one thing that I see regularly come back and which I really don't understand

Re: Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-02 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, RHS Linux User wrote: > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and will be interested in their reply. If they are > not interested in it perhaps others will take on the challenge and > create this new distribution. You need to look at independence.dunadan.com and www.seul.org. These focus on u

Re: Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-02 Thread Thomas Hubbell
This seems like a pretty good idea to me. I guess someone could create a "server" version of Linux and a "workstation" version. In both cases it would be nice to have all of the same tools available - in other words all of the same software would be available for each distribution, but the defaul

Re: Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-02 Thread Michael Jinks
I like the sound of this -- I've been thinking that exactly something like this would be a coup, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if RH did do something very much like this once the GNOME gets a little further along. As for helping to develop such a distribution -- I try to grab all of the u

Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-02 Thread RHS Linux User
--- Do not reply to the email address listed in the from field --- Use j.perXrynosXpam.lynx.dac.neu.edu - without the words nospam or the Xs keep the dot after the j --- and keep the lowercase x RedHat provides an excellent distribution for technical types but it occurs to me their is an opportu