At www.thelinuxstore.com they are now taking orders for the PIA a Personal
Internet Appliance. It comes preconfigured w/ Red Hat, and is fully
functional as a linux box. All for only $199.
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: Richard Salts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> I wonder. Are there any home users on this list?
>
> I'm a home user. I'm also a tech support rep for a major ISP.
>There's no way I'd recommend Linux to the majority of the people with
>whom I deal daily. For the most part, it's not a matter of intelligence
>or competence, it's a matter of mindset. To use Linux effectively, you
>have to think as a sysadmin at least part of the time, and you have to
>care about knowing how the computer and OS works. Windoze and
>(especially) MacOS tend to discourage this--their mindset seems to be
>that you don't need or want to know what's going on. With Linux, you do
>need to know, whether you want to or not.
>
> If we were shipping out preconfigured Internet-only boxes, I
>wouldn't have a problem with Linux as the OS--we'd set up all the
>hardware, software, etc., and it'd be ready to go, out of the box.
>However, we don't do that.
>
