[wplug] .Net Launch

[Bryon Gill]

Regarding not redhat,

I hear what you're saying, but if the goal is to get someone who is used
to windows insert_cd-click-click-click-you're installed process to try
something different, you probably want to go with the one that will create
the least hardware detection headaches, and I'd love to hear that that is
something other than redhat.

I've heard good things about progeny but haven't tried it myself- is the
install as simple as the redhat one?  Having to manually set up scsi
emulation for your cdburner, for instance, is likely to turn a lot of
people off.

Finally, perhaps the focus should be on showing that linux and linux apps
can be run with a windows install, perhaps cygwin and distros that can run
atop windows (redhat includes this option in the default install, if you
have a FAT partition), which will not so much offend the windows
developers as intrigue them with the promise of new markets in which to
wade before swimming into the deep end.

And if they end up deciding that proprietary and undocumented API's are
for the birds, well, who could blame them?

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Bryon Gill (aka abe ferlman)


On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Jack wrote:

> Might I suggest, anything but Redhat.  I don't have anything against them personally, but I don't think it would be a bad idea to use a lesser-know and (IMO) higher-quality distro like Slackware or Debian (aw hell, even the redhat-derivative Mandrake, heh).
>
> Don't want some of the people to think they've already got us tagged because they've heard all kinds of stuff about Redhat.  Stress should be put on the fact that Linux is an _operating_ _system_ (well, technically, just a kernel--GNU/Linux is an operating system :)), NOT a company.
>
> Just my two...mmmm, penny candy...
> Just my one cent. :)
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