An IBM manager involved with Linux asked (rhetorically) during a recent
Q&A session on Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/interviews/01/07/16/1326224.shtml)
if anyone would be interested in a standard Linux install that needed
just a couple of mouse clicks. (OK, some text entry would be needed.)
YES!
I want to use Linux; I don't want to install, configure, and maintain
Linux.
There is no chance that Linux will make much of dent against the Evil
Empire unless non-techies can install it and use it. That means, in this
case, that email should work, securely, out of the box.
Of all my non-technical friends, there's not one (that's zero, nil, zip)
that I could persuade to install Linux on their machine. I'm not talking
about the lack of applications, I'm just talking about the installation
process. If we want Linux to successful in more than a niche market,
the first step is to make it installable by the users in that market.
--- Vladimir
Vladimir G. Ivanovic http://www.leonora.org/~vladimir
2770 Cowper St. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447 +1 650 678 8014
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