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Article #8Re: RedHat CEO says home users shouldn't use Linux
From: Lucas, Peter
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 01:44
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 01:44
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Keith Clark wrote: > > "Lucas, Peter" wrote: > > >>So............ at the end of the day, what's the verdict? >> >>Did the CEO say that home users shouldn't use Linux? And if he did say >>it, why in particular (apart from some anomaly in the licence)? > > > Did you read the article? Sorry, no. Just came in on the arse end of the conversation and saw the subject and thought "Christ!! I only just go it on!!" > > He thinks home users are too lazy and stupid for setting up hardware and > such. Wasn't that much of a problem here. Only thing I had to change when I got this built was to get a seperate video card. Seems Linux doesn't like the new onboard sound and videos. > > He should try using YaST (SuSE). It sets up TV tuner cards, scanners, > printers, multiple video cards, Wacom tablets, Nvidia driver options, > color depth/resolution/refresh rate, sound cards, joysticks, IDE DMA > control, partition resizing, boot loader configuration, all from a > beautiful point & click GUI that even my mom could use. SuSE 8.2 is so > fast and easy to configure I may never want to use anything else. So where do I get it?? :-)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1154bf,2ea54bd0646aeea X-Google-Attributes: gid1154bf,public X-Google-Thread: 107b38,2ea54bd0646aeea X-Google-Attributes: gid107b38,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,a391555474ffb62e X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-Thread: fe2cf,2ea54bd0646aeea X-Google-Attributes: gidfe2cf,public X-Google-Thread: 1055b9,2ea54bd0646aeea X-Google-Attributes: gid1055b9,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-10 17:44:23 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news1.optus.net.au!optus!snewsf0.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net!nnrp1.ozemail.com.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Lucas, Peter" <skyscumSPAMBEGONE@gil.com.au> Organization: Under canopy by 250' with tracer burning holes through it. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat,alt.os.linux.redhat,alt.linux.redhat,aus.computers.linux Subject: Re: RedHat CEO says home users shouldn't use Linux References: <pan.2003.11.05.04.09.23.808776@hotmail.com> <17532361.tm2asPQNcB@gregs-web-hosting-and-pickle-farming> <pan.2003.11.05.05.36.24.671893@comcast.net> <1461459.XJWvGJHOOx@gregs-web-hosting-and-pickle-farming> <2ba4b4eb.0311050926.1b97d0f6@posting.google.com> <4sbqb.307821$6C4.4444@pd7tw1no> <pan.2003.11.05.19.21.17.290477@jhu.edu> <imdqb.309929$6C4.23945@pd7tw1no> <pan.2003.11.05.22.14.37.777739@jhu.edu> <bog3lm$d63$9@au-nws-0001.flow.com.au> <JsVrb.42$It.1259@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au> <3FB02B16.14A94EF8@hotmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3FB02B16.14A94EF8@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 36 Message-ID: <W9Xrb.65$It.2289@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:44:21 +1000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.47.49.8 X-Trace: nnrp1.ozemail.com.au 1068515062 202.47.49.8 (Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:44:22 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:44:22 EST