Re: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation

2010-01-04 Thread Joel Rees
On Jan 2, 2010, at 4:33 AM, Robert E. Martin, VCM Network wrote: [...] Fedora has many advantages, but in its raw state it is not very user friendly. Actually, in its current state, it is very user friendly to those not steeped in the One True Microsoft Way. Except for system upgrades,

Re: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation

2010-01-02 Thread Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)
On 02/01/10 07:27, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 13:33:24 -0600, --snipped-- I don't think you want to do this based on Fedora. The rate of change is very high. Have you looked at Ubuntu LTS distros to see how those would work for you intended market? CentOS may also be

Re: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation

2010-01-02 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 01:27 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 13:33:24 -0600, The hurdle is that Linux usage is very foreign to the average consumer and SMB. Linux is an entirely different system to navigate and administrate. The layout, description and deployment of

RE: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation

2010-01-02 Thread Robert E. Martin, VCM Network
4:20 AM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation On 02/01/10 07:27, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 13:33:24 -0600, --snipped-- I don't think you want to do this based on Fedora. The rate of change is very high. Have you looked

Re: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation

2010-01-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 05:09:21 -0700, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: Actually, I found these to be rather easy to handle when I set up my own repositories using mrepo and each computer was installed via kickstart which configured it to use the local repo(s) which also included

RE: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation

2010-01-02 Thread Robert E. Martin, VCM Network
: www.vcmnetwork.com -Original Message- From: Bruno Wolff III [mailto:br...@wolff.to] Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 10:14 AM To: Craig White Cc: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation On Sat, Jan 02, 2010

Re: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation

2010-01-02 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 03 January 2010 00:12:03 Robert E. Martin, VCM Network wrote: I am somewhat confused. I thought that as an open sourced OS, it was a free license, which included the applications in the repositories. What am I missing? You are missing the distinction between official Fedora

Re: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation

2010-01-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 18:12:03 -0600, Robert E. Martin, VCM Network rob...@vcmnetwork.com wrote: I am somewhat confused. I thought that as an open sourced OS, it was a free license, which included the applications in the repositories. What am I missing? Some things are supported by free

Re: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation

2010-01-02 Thread Mail Lists
On 01/02/2010 02:19 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: missing --- no playing of .mp3 files and divx movies, among other things. This extra functionality can be enabled by installing software from third party repositories, such as rpmfusion and livna. But that also means that legality and licensing

Re: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation

2010-01-02 Thread Robert E. Martin, VCM Network
I understand. On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 19:19 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sunday 03 January 2010 00:12:03 Robert E. Martin, VCM Network wrote: I am somewhat confused. I thought that as an open sourced OS, it was a free license, which included the applications in the repositories. What

Re: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation

2010-01-01 Thread Jatin K
On 01/02/2010 01:03 AM, Robert E. Martin, VCM Network wrote: Members: I have been seriously contemplating developing a business model that is targeting expanding the use of Linux for the everyday desktop use and in small to medium size business. I am not a computer geek or a highly

Re: Fedora Basic End User Rollout Support Operation

2010-01-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 13:33:24 -0600, The hurdle is that Linux usage is very foreign to the average consumer and SMB. Linux is an entirely different system to navigate and administrate. The layout, description and deployment of applications is in whole different paradigm. Fedora has many