On Fri, 28 May 1999, Kenny Drobnack wrote:
> > 2- People often are interested in Linux but fear to touch their PC
> > organization (it can be also difficult to reinstall Win9x after a
> > disaster...; partitions : WHAT?, with a 's' ?).
>
> I've got 2 solutions for this: #1 Slackware has a LIVE bootable version on the
> CD. Its kind of a pain though, since you can't change much configuration.
...
Indeed, I know this kind of live-CD, but I emphasize the fact that it
would be strongly oriented to a simplified demo (like the QNX one,
running on every PC), brilliant like an advertisment, but avoiding
unneeded features, because it is only for the 'show', to display the
diversity and the power of Linux. In my context, I found that people are
quite shy when too many possibilities are at hand :
if you say that 'to edit a file, you can use emacs, vi ,sed, xcoral,
xedit, lucid, nedit, joe, vim, jed, xjed, wp8, applix, staroffice,
koffice, ... ' the reflex is often to be overhelmed by the choice,
and to stay with a more rigid option 'notepad or word'.
Better say 'here is a very nice editor, look; many other choices are also
possible, depending to your taste (just little snapshots...), but this one
is enough if you prefer to avoid the diversity' (or some better approach
;-) in the same path).
For the same reason, I would avoid any 'agression' to the local hard disk
(like installing tens of megabytes on the C: MS-DOS disk, to avoid some
fear about recovering from problems) : it would be destinated to somewhat
'reluctant' people (or owners of the PC).
A demonstrator would be able 'to come, to show and to leave' without
any change on the PC.
The current live-CD's (for what I know) are oriented to a more permanent
usage, implying other choices and trade-off. They are thought for
technical peoples like us, not for the new targeted ones (they do not
want to play with bits & bytes, protocols, API...).
To avoid to reinvent the wheel at each location, the Linux-day CD would be
loaded also with some plug-and-play properties triggered by menu : a
demo SMB server, HTTP server..., so that a demonstrator can boot on the
CD, choose a demo personnality (eg. the SMB server) and use it to
demonstrate how it inserts easily and transparently in an existing local
network.
If it is possible for a 'zealot-but-not-a-guru' to present
** with confidence ** a convincing demonstration in an
administration/school... environment, we will multiply the effect of our
efforts.
Regards,
Alain
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REM: if somebody wants to play with the QNX demo floppy, I can search its
image and place it on my ftp server.
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