It occurs to me that the audience we're looking at is just those
"lazy" Windows (and Apple) users. Not every computer user is dedicated to
learning to program or even really even administer a system.
Theo's no-compromise version may be just the thing to totally turn
off such a user to Open Source. No matter how desirable increased security
for casual users might be, it won't fly if the users won't do it.
While OpenBSD might be the ideal, maybe FreeBSD or NetBSD is more
what we need for the Fair.
The same might be said for Slackware or Debian, of course, which
is why I rather prefer Progeny or Mandrake for this purpose.
That said, I see no reason to exclude more challenging
distributions from the mix, with perhaps a note that whoever provides the
challenging version is available for support (with, or perhaps without,
suitable renumeration).
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Tim Howe wrote:
> I should probably be clear... I am not a Linux user at all. If I was
> going to use a Distro, it would be Slackware or Debian. I am a BSD
> user (among other things) and I have no love for Red Hat, Mandrake, or
> any other Distribution that attempts to dumb down the OS so that a
> lazy Windows user can use it.
>
> </rant>
[SNIP]
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Ed Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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