On Wednesday 24 March 2004 07:51 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 12:25, frankieh wrote:
>
> <Generous Whack>
>
> It's a slow road to toe, but the tech world is changing. Don't need all
> that fancy-dancy marketing if you've got an OS that's solid as a rock...
>
> It would be rather nice if someone somewhere WOULD do some more
> marketing of linux - even in a small way. I try my best to market it's
> uses to my customers and to those that I end up meeting - every time a
> customer comes here to the house they SEE it in action and freak out at
> what I can do with it (whilst I'm fixing their Windown machines). I've
> spray painted "linux" on the boot of my car, even - and have Redhat
> stickers all over the back as well...
>
> stephen kuhn - owner
I have made quite a number of converts here. I have lost count quite a
while ago. In the small town that I live in, (population under 500) news
travels fast. I am the only person that I know of for about 20 miles around
that repairs or builds computers although the main business here is a small
machine shop that my wife and I own. Everyone that comes in the door here
with computer problems or asking about having me build them a computer gets
told about Mandrake Linux, Most of them end up test driving my machine and I
would estimate that well over half of them end up having me put Mandrake on
their machine , sometimes replaceing windoze and other times as a bual boot
setup. Like I said news around here travels fast. Now people are coming
around asking me about Mandrake. I even keep a old clunker 500 MHS With ML
10.0 installed around for a loaner computer for some of the folks that bring
their machine in for repair and can't do without a computer for a day or 2.
That has made a number of converts. At this point the little town that I
live in here in Arkansas may very well have a higher percentage of Mandrake
users than anywhere else in the US, word seems to be spreading to the
surrounding small towns fast. And people think hillbillies are dumb, at least
they know a far superior OS when they see one LOL. The guy that teh Gateway
burn in hell thread was all about used my loaner for a day and was insistant
that he would not use windoze ever again, in fact I was there while he told
that to several people from Gateway on the phone and then told them about how
much better ML was than win XP. All that after using Mandrake for just 24
hours.
Marc
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