Re: From Novell: Downlod the SuSE 9.3 Live DVD now!

From: Mud (void_at_linux.site)
Date: 04/16/05 

Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:56:00 -0400

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:46:05 +0000, hachiroku wrote:

> Linux just plain has TOO many options for the average corporate user,
> Novell's target market. It's tough enough to get people who know Micro$oft
> products properly to provide support; the support just isn't there for
> Linux. There will be some who will clean up big time providing Linux
> support for the corporations that do decide to use it, but this experiment
> happened 7 years ago, and RedHat still hasn't knocked down the corporate
> doors. It needs to be even more user friendly; it has made great strides
> in the last 5 years, but is still too kludgey for your Executive Secretary
> to use. Try getting a neophyte to "associate an application" in Linux
> (sometimes it's tough enough to walk someone through this with an OS
> they've been using for the past 10 years!!!)

Where I work they've got a huge IT department that spends all it's time
trying to figure out...and help users figure out, the bizzare mess that is
windows. Everytime someone tells me how much easier windows is to use I
just laugh. The ONLY advantage I see that windows has is the fact that
hardware makers will write DRIVERS for windows. That's it. That's the
ONLY advantage windows has....but it's a big one.

I've got a box running SUSE 9.2 PRO, one on Fedora Core 3 and one on
Windows XP PRO. I have the least trouble with the Fedora box....but for
some reason I prefer the SUSE box. The XP box isn't allowed on the net
anymore so it's not too much trouble lately.

coldfire

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