<Presumably, you'd have one person deciding what hardware to have on all
machines, not a bunch of people running out to CompUSA and plugging in
every new gadget that comes out.>
Exactly. In order to have a successful "Linux revolution", you must
play dictatorship on the hardware selection. Most businesses buy their
computers from Dell. For business Linux desktops, the mini PC that I
mentioned in an earlier post
http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/pipermail/luau/2002-July/009085.html
can be a very good starting point (for being very quite and compact).
On the Linux distros of "Red Hat vs. Mandrake vs. SuSE", since XFree86
4.2.0 has improved so much, hardware is much less of an issue. The key
issues are the packages being included (why Mandrake is better than Red
Hat for desktop use), and how openly and attentively the distro is being
beta-tested (why Mandrake is now better than SuSE).
