RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Linux for Guardian readers
I read the same article, with much the same response, particularly as someone who has put (paid for myself) SuSE 8 on my laptop and desktop machine, and had my girlfriend praise it highly. Has anyone managed to make contact with the author and persuade him to try a boxed product? (Roger?) Chris -----Original Message----- From: Damian Counsell To: suse-linux-uk-schools Sent: 5/9/02 7:47 PM Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Linux for Guardian readers All teachers read *The Guardian* :-) so you shouldn't have much trouble getting hold of a copy of today's edition from the staff room. In the "Online" tabloid supplement there is a full-page article about living with Linux, entitled "May the source be with you". For some bizarre reason there *isn't* a Web version of the article, at the online *Online* site ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/0,3147,179200,00.html ). I'd be happy for someone to correct me on this. (However there is a, ahem, an online version of another piece in today's *Online* about keeping the human genome open: http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,711981,00.html ---not that I'm obsessed or anything.) After his experiment, the (UNIX-friendly) author of the Linux article gives the usual "impressive, but not ready for primetime" verdict, though he did choose to download Red Hat to his PC, burn his own ISOs and then to do the install without a manual. Crazy. Everyone knows the best way for the newbie is to buy a boxed copy of SuSE---and "Have a lot of fun"... [Do I get my free-as-in-beer copy of SuSE 8.0 now, Roger?] -- Damian COUNSELL http://www.counsell.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help@suse.com
Hi All, Just read the article online, shall we deluge the Guardian with comments? Perhaps an evaluation copy of SuSE 8.0 should be sent to the author? I think many of us could write a better, more balanced article, with much more sensible suggestions re-linux install and use. The author does not seem to have heard of RPM's, DEB's etc.... A pity - a great opportunity has been missed here - I think it needs to be replied to, the only question is how to reply without sounding like a bunch of fanatical linux fans.... Perhaps several of us should write and submit articles to the Guardian, TES et al explaining how we installed and used Linux? BTW: Just installed a test K12LTSP 2.0 server - it rocks! Alan
Chris Puttick wrote:
I read the same article, with much the same response, particularly as someone who has put (paid for myself) SuSE 8 on my laptop and desktop machine, and had my girlfriend praise it highly. Has anyone managed to make contact with the author and persuade him to try a boxed product? (Roger?)
Chris
-----Original Message----- From: Damian Counsell To: suse-linux-uk-schools Sent: 5/9/02 7:47 PM Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Linux for Guardian readers
All teachers read *The Guardian* :-) so you shouldn't have much trouble getting hold of a copy of today's edition from the staff room. In the
"Online" tabloid supplement there is a full-page article about living with Linux, entitled "May the source be with you". For some bizarre reason there *isn't* a Web version of the article, at the online *Online* site (
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/0,3147,179200,00.html
). I'd be happy for someone to correct me on this. (However there is
a, ahem, an online version of another piece in today's *Online* about keeping the human genome open:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,711981,00.html
---not that I'm obsessed or anything.)
After his experiment, the (UNIX-friendly) author of the Linux article gives the usual "impressive, but not ready for primetime" verdict, though he did choose to download Red Hat to his PC, burn his own ISOs and then to do the install without a manual. Crazy. Everyone knows the
best way for the newbie is to buy a boxed copy of SuSE---and "Have a lot
of fun"...
[Do I get my free-as-in-beer copy of SuSE 8.0 now, Roger?]
-- Damian COUNSELL http://www.counsell.com/
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