Are they offering a variety of hardware? Whats them specs? How much for just the recovery CD ? :-)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Vik Olliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 8:19 AM Subject: Re: Dick Smith Linux Systems > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 23:40, Nick Rout wrote: > > Vik Oliver, who is on this list, has something to do with DSE selling > > them I think, he will know plenty. > > Yup :) I did a bit of consultancy work on the recovery CD. It's Mandrake > 9.0 with things tweaked so users can fly it out-of-the-box. There's a > HAM driver in there for a 56K modem, Ihug is in the kppp wizard, > OpenOffice is pre-installed, Mozilla, Konqueror and k-mail are available > (Mozilla is labeled "Web Browser" and a Mozilla -mail link is labeled > "E-mail"). The whole thing just works. The user gets a recovery CD and > the 3 disk Mandrake 9.0 set. DSE Sales staff are programmed to let the > users know what they're in for. > > Personally I think it'd benefit from a bit more RAM. The user experience > will be enhanced when the Open Source version of RealPlayer is available > because then that can be shipped pre-installed. > > Vik :v) > >
