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On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Vladimir G Ivanovic wrote:
> 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.
FWLIW, This is exactly how the Corel Linux distro worked. 4
Clicks and two text fills and it's up and running. They did a killer job
of making the install as WinXX like as possible. Once you're installed
you can then go back and configure services you need as you need them.
It did make for a very nice middle ground between Win9X and Linux. We put
one up at the office last year and people would be using for many minutes
before realizing it wasn't an MS box. To bad they didn't run with it. It
had the best potential of grabbing the desktop market as any other distro,
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