Re: RedHat CEO says home users shouldn't use Linux

From: Lucas, Peter (skyscumSPAMBEGONE_at_gil.com.au)
Date: 11/11/03 

Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:44:21 +1000

Keith Clark wrote:
>
> "Lucas, Peter" wrote:
>
>
>>So............ at the end of the day, what's the verdict?
>>
>>Did the CEO say that home users shouldn't use Linux? And if he did say
>>it, why in particular (apart from some anomaly in the licence)?
>
>
> Did you read the article?

Sorry, no. Just came in on the arse end of the conversation and saw the
subject and thought "Christ!! I only just go it on!!"

>
> He thinks home users are too lazy and stupid for setting up hardware and
> such.

Wasn't that much of a problem here. Only thing I had to change when I
got this built was to get a seperate video card. Seems Linux doesn't
like the new onboard sound and videos.

>
> He should try using YaST (SuSE). It sets up TV tuner cards, scanners,
> printers, multiple video cards, Wacom tablets, Nvidia driver options,
> color depth/resolution/refresh rate, sound cards, joysticks, IDE DMA
> control, partition resizing, boot loader configuration, all from a
> beautiful point & click GUI that even my mom could use. SuSE 8.2 is so
> fast and easy to configure I may never want to use anything else.

So where do I get it?? :-)

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