> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vladimir G Ivanovic
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 11:38 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [OT/Meta] Sendmail weirdness...
>
>
> 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
>
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First off, let's not worry about evil empire - OS wars etc. Linux will take
care of itself.

That said...
I think the workstation install is all that you wish for.

The discussion about sendmail centered on server install - that requires
configuration.

Craig



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