In response to a few posts about using Linux at ByteWorks, a long- time volunteer and trainer posted this to the ByteWorks discussion forum ...
On Jan 2, 2006, at 1:03 PM, (name elided) wrote: > My two cents: > > I think one of the most important criteria is the drivers availible > for the potpourri of hardware that we get in the form of donations, > and how easy it is to find and install these drivers. I don't have > much linux experience, but the two times I have tried to get it > working at home, there is some network card or video card that I > can't get working properly. I don't doubt that there are linux > lovers (the type who like to use cute spellings for Gates' products) > out there who could find the driver on a forum somewhere and with a > bunch of MAKE commands and an alphabet soup of switches get it > working properly...but in order to get machines ready in an > efficient manor, we'll need some serious training and support before > the volunteers in the back area are to that point. > > I'm all for ending our pirating ways (ARGHHHHH) but I need to be > convinced that that Linux will be practical to use on the mix of > equipment we get donated to us. I'm working on a response, but thought I'd seek input from this group, too. Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
