Re: [OT] Debian advocacy for Smart but Scared People With Lives

From: s. keeling (keeling_at_spots.ab.ca)
Date: 10/21/04

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    Incoming from William Ballard:
    > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:16:21PM -0700, Gilbert, Joseph wrote:
    > > session and found that KDE had autodetected my sound card. You may want to
    > > have them give Sarge a try. It may be a lot easier than even you suspect...
    >
    > This isn't a technical thing, so much as a motivation thing. I actually

    Exactly. I'd guess the best you could do is set them up with a dual
    boot system, and beg them to try it for a week. Give them Evo for
    mail, and OO. You better ensure everything works correctly "out of
    the box", and is secured, or they'll just end up with yet another
    insecure and unstable platform. You'll probably need to consider data
    migration issues too. How to get their mail from Windows to Linux and
    back again? You're also going to be their sysadmin for a while; do
    you have remote access to their machines? Are they going to trust you
    to be root on their machines?

    Maybe you should wait until the next disaster befalls them (shouldn't
    be long). They may then be better motivated to accept the challenge. 

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