[wplug] .Net Launch

Logan dracoaardvark at hotmail.com
Tue Jan 29 21:41:29 EST 2002


> 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.

Mandrake, Red Hat for neophytes

> 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.

Perhapse we should also demonstrate the reverse, Wine and such for
Excel/Word/whatever other aplications they "can't live without"



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