On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 21:42, Nick Rout wrote: > DSE staff need some education. > > I went in for my usual cruise and to pick up a few electronics > components. I asked about the linux machines they were selling "No we > don't have any at the moment, but hey they have linux 10.2, which is > pretty good"
It's a good job that the general public stand a fair chance at using this one. I did some bits aimed at the novice user like having icons for a "Web Browser" instead of Mozilla. Few will know what Mozilla means, and all they will care is if it works or not. The way it's been done is that the modem is built-in, the local ISP is primed to handle that particular configuration of the machine, the user just has to figure out how to plug it in and buy an account. With luck and a little experience, pre-configured trial accounts could be shipped with each machine - if there are enough takers for it. I guess there's still a lot of experimenting to be done in the Linux mass market. Vik :v)
