J Sloan a écrit :
No, that's bad news - to introduce linux as some sort of dorky toy ms windoze program is damaging to linux and gives a very bad impression of it.
not at all. It shows Linux can work very well with very few resources, and this is very good.
Anything would be better - linux on cheap boxes
I'm not allowed to connect any computer of my own on this net (and I would never allow such thing on my own net!) , dual boot I can't neither do so , virtual
windoze or wine on linux desktops
so no Linux - all are better solutions that the
one you advocate.
sometime you have to deal with situations you don't master. I had the ability to use a handfull of VMware licences (I know they are now free, but this is recent), but the main OS had to cope with proprietary software that could only run with Windows, and anyhow, I was just tolerated there :-( I just could trick the system giving my students access to a linux serveur located in an external place I did master. for many windows users, opening a ssh terminal (putty) and working with it is simple magic :-) - but here we go OT jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/mediawiki/index.php/GPS_Lowrance_GO --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org