-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John wrote:
Hey gang,
Got my latest Langalist letter in today, and I'm still fuming a little bit. I've been at it with Fred about his statements about Linux for about a half a year now, and he just don't seem to want to listen. This latest letter though, sort of got to me, because as *I* see it, he's still naysaying Linux, plus he's really misleading the readers of his letter about what should and shouldn't be used, *especially* for newbies to Linux. I wrote him a letter before making this one to put in here. I offered to send him my 4 CD's from my 8.2 *and* a 10GB HDD, so he can actually see what a Linux desktop is and how easy it is to use and that 'grandma' *can* use it. I'll let the list here know if he takes me up on my offer. Meanwhile, here's the part of his letter dealing with Linux. Make your own conclusions. Hello John,
I to get the Langalist and have for a couple of years because I work on windoze units. At least now Fred is mentioning linux in his articles and with this latest article he does give what I feel is good credit to SuSE and its live -evaluation program. Before this came out I had already downloaded the live-eval and burned copies of it to give to my customers, I have had more than a few show much more interest in linux since and this has only been about 2 weeks. Maybe this is what more of us should do to show people that linux can do what they want. As to grandma using it, yes she probably can, but to do a install I doubt it. Hell I have been a tech for years and I had problems with 8.0 and some of the accessories attached, ie printers, modems, scanners, etc. If it were not for the good people on this list and others I might not have switched. With each version it becomes easier to install as more and more hardware is auto recognized and configured. this is not to say that windoze works out of the box all the time either, for if it did I would not make a living. Yet I see the time soon when linux will give M$S a real run for the money and I want be betting on Empire Maker. Last thing I will say is that I wish SuSE could flood the market with copies of live-eval like AOL does so that more people would at least give it a try. David Het Troll -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+tsMi3VVncqMjOZsRAopbAJ9yL3tucKnli1EzMYOLzY+li9LkWgCfaUaV nqIGz2xqCVAmO+0X9ogE+aY= =RH0M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----