Re: Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-03 Thread Zoki
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, RHS Linux User wrote: -RedHat provides an excellent distribution for technical types but it -occurs to me their is an opportunity -for them to start to fill the Home market niche now. *** There is one thing that I see regularly come back and which I really don't understand:

Re: Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-03 Thread iannaconem
The Linux@Home Distribution would come with the following [omissis] Any thoughts on this? Any other ideas? Is RedHat already planning such a distribution? Would it supply Gnome only? Anyone want to work on such a distribution? Jeffrey Perry Suse 5.2 - http://www.suse.com/ -

Re: Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-03 Thread Rick Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: *** There is one thing that I see regularly come back and which I really don't understand: Where does this urge come from for some people to try to make everything accessible to Joe Sixpack!? Why is that part of the total world population always the one who is used

Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-02 Thread RHS Linux User
--- Do not reply to the email address listed in the from field --- Use j.perXrynosXpam.lynx.dac.neu.edu - without the words nospam or the Xs keep the dot after the j --- and keep the lowercase x RedHat provides an excellent distribution for technical types but it occurs to me their is an

Re: Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-02 Thread Michael Jinks
big snip I like the sound of this -- I've been thinking that exactly something like this would be a coup, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if RH did do something very much like this once the GNOME gets a little further along. As for helping to develop such a distribution -- I try to grab all

Re: Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-02 Thread Thomas Hubbell
This seems like a pretty good idea to me. I guess someone could create a "server" version of Linux and a "workstation" version. In both cases it would be nice to have all of the same tools available - in other words all of the same software would be available for each distribution, but the

Re: Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-02 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, RHS Linux User wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and will be interested in their reply. If they are not interested in it perhaps others will take on the challenge and create this new distribution. You need to look at independence.dunadan.com and www.seul.org. These focus on