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Article #9Re: RedHat CEO says home users shouldn't use Linux
From: Keith Clark
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:21
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:21
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:44:21 +1000, Lucas, Peter wrote: > 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?? :-) Well what I reccommend, at least if you really like KDE, is to download their "live eval" CD from one of their mirrors. Then if you like it you can install it for free via FTP or you can buy the disks. That's how they get people to pay - no ISO's so reinstalling can be a pain. I downloaded the installation tree to a spare hard drive which I used for the install, then removed and set aside (it was an old 10 GB drive anyway, too small for anything else). Anyway, they support both Gnome and KDE, but the Live Eval CD only has KDE - it's like Knoppix in that you run the OS from the CD. I've been a Gnome person but the new KDE has me using it more these days... http://www.suse.com/us/private/download/suse_linux/index.html
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fe2cf,2ea54bd0646aeea X-Google-Attributes: gidfe2cf,public X-Google-Thread: 107b38,2ea54bd0646aeea X-Google-Attributes: gid107b38,public X-Google-Thread: 1055b9,2ea54bd0646aeea X-Google-Attributes: gid1055b9,public X-Google-Thread: 1154bf,2ea54bd0646aeea X-Google-Attributes: gid1154bf,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,a391555474ffb62e X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-10 20:21:34 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.he.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!nwrddc02.gnilink.net.POSTED!3b9e40c8!not-for-mail From: "Keith Clark" <clarkphotography@hotmail.com> Organization: none Subject: Re: RedHat CEO says home users shouldn't use Linux User-Agent: Pan/0.13.3 (That cat's something I can't explain) Message-ID: <pan.2003.11.11.04.22.48.866871@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat,alt.os.linux.redhat,alt.linux.redhat,aus.computers.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> <W9Xrb.65$It.2289@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au> Followup-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat,alt.os.linux.redhat,alt.linux.redhat,aus.computers.linux MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 48 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:21:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.4.2.132 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc02.gnilink.net 1068524491 4.4.2.132 (Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:21:31 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:21:31 EST