On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Philip S Tellis wrote:
->A very good idea. As an assembler, it was something I thought of doing
->myself, but was never very confident of giving a home user a linux system
->that I wasn't sure I could make `fool proof'
->
->If we are confident that we can churn out fool proof installations, which
->should not leave users wondering what's going on. They should be secure,
->with the front end look af a Mac (okay I'm exagerating but still).
->
->Thinking about all this, BeOS sounds like a good system.
->
I Don't think the NT/Win98/95 installations are all done in one day. I know
many people who called their venders to fix software installations problems.
I think it is feasible to give a preconfigured system for linux. This can
be done at least for offices where some elementary networking is there.
For a homePC linux has to wait till multimedia CDs are linux compatible.
BeOS, forget about it now. It is windows way of doing Unix, which basically
amounts to not doing unix. They are not fully posix complaint. BeOS does
not have the kind SW/HW support Linux has. BESIDES it is COMMERCIAL.
Anyway letus discuss it in the meeting.
Nagarjuna
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