eWeek Asks: Red Hat: Next Redmond?

2002-08-26 Thread Dave Ihnat
Gentlefolk, I'm sure this will get flogged to death, but it's relevant to our interests. This is from eWEEK News [EMAIL PROTECTED] August 26, 2002 // Volume 2, Issue 125 = News and Views

Re: eWeek Asks: Red Hat: Next Redmond?

2002-08-26 Thread Bo Peng
I do not agree with the author. I do like redhat but I can freely switch to Mandrake, Debian, SuSE etc, if redhat begins to behave like Microsoft. Bo On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:06:32PM -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: Gentlefolk, I'm sure this will get flogged to death, but it's relevant to our

Re: eWeek Asks: Red Hat: Next Redmond?

2002-08-26 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:06:32PM -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: I'm sure this will get flogged to death, but it's relevant to our interests. 1. It's been flogged to death for several years. 2. It's not relevent to our interests. Once source is open, it can *not* be closed. That's the whole

Re: eWeek Asks: Red Hat: Next Redmond?

2002-08-26 Thread Bob Hartung
In my humble opinion this story sounds a lot like it might originate in the Northwest around Redmond as part of the ongoing FUD campaign. My $0.02 Bob Ed Wilts wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 01:35:03PM -0700, Rick Forrister wrote: I'll get worried when I see mandatory components, such as

Re: eWeek Asks: Red Hat: Next Redmond?

2002-08-26 Thread Susan Murray
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 21:16, Martin Mewes wrote: So best attempt may would be to have something like MS-Linux to fit in both worlds. Linux for the admins, and MS for the Users who only want to Click'n-Rush. Have any of you guys seen Lindows? It is a MS-Linux with a Click'n-Rush

Re: eWeek Asks: Red Hat: Next Redmond?

2002-08-26 Thread Gary
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 07:58:23PM + or thereabouts, Susan Murray wrote: On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 21:16, Martin Mewes wrote: So best attempt may would be to have something like MS-Linux to fit in both worlds. Linux for the admins, and MS for the Users who only want to Click'n-Rush.

Re: eWeek Asks: Red Hat: Next Redmond?

2002-08-26 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 05:44:33PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote: yawwwn .. SSDD: single sided, double density, - or - same sh*t, different day Journalists and trolls say: Let's you and he fight, and I'll watch the fun. True. The risk here is that this is being seen

Re: eWeek Asks: Red Hat: Next Redmond?

2002-08-26 Thread Susan Murray
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 01:18, Gary wrote: There is one other *big* factor. Lindows only runs as ROOT ! There is no other way. -- Best regards, Gary If there's a will, there's a way. After using the Windowseque run command from the menu, I fired up Konsole, typed su bart and can

Re: eWeek Asks: Red Hat: Next Redmond?

2002-08-26 Thread Gary
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:06:49PM + or thereabouts, Susan Murray wrote: On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 01:18, Gary wrote: There is one other *big* factor. Lindows only runs as ROOT ! There is no other way. -- Best regards, Gary If there's a will, there's a way. After

Re: eWeek Asks: Red Hat: Next Redmond?

2002-08-26 Thread Bret Hughes
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 22:27, Gary wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:06:49PM + or thereabouts, Susan Murray wrote: On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 01:18, Gary wrote: There is one other *big* factor. Lindows only runs as ROOT ! There is no other way. -- Best regards, Gary

Re: eWeek Asks: Red Hat: Next Redmond?

2002-08-26 Thread Martin Mewes
Hi Susan, Am Montag, 26. August 2002 21:58 schrieb Susan Murray: On the other hand, users in my office couldn't see much difference between Lindows running Mozilla and StarOffice 6.0 and Windows with the usual Office crap installed. I realize you can do this with almost any distro, but the