On 12/12/05, Marco Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's forget what you've written so far, shall we (everybody has > bad moments): please restart from scratch, answering again to > my original message.
To answer the original question "Should we promote CosmoPOD to our friends and family?" - no. While a guy who likes to play with technology (like me) may find it amusing for a short amount of time, it doesn't offer much pragmaticly. 1) There is a download you have to run in order for the program to work smoothly at all - many employers would not allow that. 2) The way around that is a *HUGE* Java app, which I never did get to open. 3) The hosted Linux OS will always run slower than your host OS (as would have to be the case, since your OS is running underneath the hosted one). 4) It froze up on me after just a few minutes of playing around with it, and there was no way to recover. An ancedotal reason, I know, but I'm probably not the only one that's happened to. 5) I don't know what real benefit it would offer to anyone that has their own computer already. Maybe if you wanted your own personal space online while using other people's computers (at a library, at work, at an Internet Cafe) but it needs to be a lot more stable, and quicker before that becomes practical. 6) To quickly demonstrate Linux (or OOo) without installing anything, you can use a Linux Live CD. There are plenty of them, and if you don't have a burner, or can't afford the blank CDs, Ubuntu will send you as many as you'd like for free - http://www.ubuntu.org/ - there is a delay there, but with a burner and a blank CD, others are free. Some, like DSL, Feather Linux, Puppy Linux, etc. are pretty small downloads, so even dialup users aren't excluded. (but they would be from using CosmoPOD) 7) To demonstrate just OOo without installing, there are instructions for a USB-drive based install online. So, to sum up, unless your friends are techy kind of people who enjoy seeing what technology can do, I wouldn't recommend this to them. It's buggy, slow, and can be confusing or scary to non-techie people. Even one tech person on this thread commented on the lack of security. BTW, I got the "certificate is out of date" "fingerprint didn't verify" messages at first, too. I just quit it and tried again. Then it worked. -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ Because everyone loves free software!
