Brooks
Indeed, it comes with the "live cd", but I think that is nice. If you are really enthousiastic, you can borrow it to family and friends to check it out.
I think this is something of a waste. If I want family and friends to see, they can come over and look at my desktop. I'd rather have the extra software for use on the second cd than what really amounts to a marketing tool.
Probably yes, for those who know how to compile packages and install
without rpms and YaST (or red carpet, or apt). I'm not one of
Actually, it's more than just a marketing tool. It's also a useful discovery tool, when your friends' Windows systems, crash, and they wish to recover data, you'll probably be able to insert that LiveCD and burn their existing data directly to CD for them without having to beat yourself up about re-installing Windows. It is more than just a marketing tool. Did I say that already? <G> [snip] things thosepeople:
my skill and technical knowledge is not that high, and so, for me, no I can't do that with Gnome.
I'll give a difference perspective on this. I blew away 9.0 Pro and put 9.1 Personal on my son's computer. He was not impressed with the number of games that was included in Personal. He wants the Pro version. I wouldn't recommend the personal version either, EXCEPT in cases where people want the basic, minimum stuff. The KDE/Gnome stuff is moot. If someone wants to use a computer for basic stuff, I don't really think they're going to go ga-ga over one Windows manager or the other. Jon Johnston Creative Business Solutions IBM, Lotus, Microsoft Consultants http://www.cbsol.com 952-544-1108 Blog: http://bingo.cbsol.com