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From: William Edward Webber
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 00:00

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On Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:02:46 +1000, rgw (rgw@trinity.unimelb.edu.au) wrote:
: 
: We would like to blow away Windoze and install linux, but we need to make
: the machines unthreatening enough for our users to keep using them. We have
: some ideas about how to set up linux and X to make it close to M$ Win-like
: (we don't want to scare the punters) but we would be grateful for any
: suggestions or stories of similar experiences.
: 
The Binary Bar in Brunswick Street runs Linux Internet machines with the 
AfterStep window manager, netscape, and a few other X utilities.  Their
naive users have no trouble with this setup.  Talk to david@binary.net.au
for more info.  As long as you have xdm set up, your users aren't going to
be able to inadvertently get out of X (or deliberately either unless they
know at least a little bit about Unix).

-- 
William Webber        Multimedia Database Systems, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
wew@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au                  Food.  Shelter.  Source code.
  "'This tree is certainly good for nothing,' said Tzu Chi. 'This is why it
  has grown so large.  Ah-ha!  This is the sort of uselessness that sages
  live by.'" --- _The_Book_of_Chuang_Tzu_

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From: wew@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (William Edward Webber)
Subject: Re: Suggestions please - Office for Linux
Date: 1997/07/29
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