Re: Linux for a non-profit org to be easy to switch?

From: Adam McCarthy (redpenguin_at_atlanticbb.net.invalid)
Date: 10/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:55:56 -0400

Aragorn wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 October 2005 05:52, Adam McCarthy stood up and spoke the
> following words to the masses in /comp.os.linux.misc...:/
>
>
>>Ok let me explain what I wish to do.
>>
>>I currently wish to install a version of Linux that is extremely easy
>>to switch from Windows but is also 100% free. No like free for
>>personal or whatever.
>
>
> This requirement would be met with 99% of the distributions. However,
> the word "free" in Free Software stands for freedom, not necessarily
> for "gratis".
>
> Many distributions are available commercially, but this is because they
> typically bundle software that is "free for personal use" but may not
> be freely distributed, such as proprietary nVidia or ATI drivers.
>
> Still, if money really *is* an issue, you could opt for the gratis
> downloadable version and fetch the drivers from nVidia's site yourself.
>
> The same applies to the Java Virtual Machine from Sun Microsystems. You
> can fetch it off of their website.
>
>
>>I am using Ubuntu now but even that looks fairly different then
>>Windows, so what do you all recommend that I can do, that will really
>>make it easy to switch?
>
>
> Are you sure you want to be using Gnu/Linux? If you want something that
> looks like Windows, then you can use ehm... Windows. ;-) Or you can
> wait for Freedows to ever be completed, of course. ;-)
>
> (Yes, and there is Linspire, which is a Gnu/Linux that looks and feels
> just like Windows, which is quite perverse. ;-) Linspire is not gratis
> either, by the way.)
>
> My apologies for this remark, but Gnu/Linux is not a replacement for
> Windows. It is a UNIX-style operating system, i.e. a client/server
> multi-user platform.
>
> Gnu/Linux can do all that Windows does and much more, but it will do
> things differently, and expects the user to show a bit more of
> responsibility. It will do whatever you tell it to do, but you have to
> take that literally.
>
>
>>I already switched and now have only one Windows machine and the other
>>3 are Linux.
>
>
> Then I don't see the problem? You should be used to Gnu/Linux then by
> now...
>
I only said the part about switching so people didn't think I didn't
know Linux instead of the people I was installing it for.

I don't necessary wanna make it replace Windows in the manner you speak
of but replace it as the main OSes on those machines. We don't care if
we run Windows, DOS, Linux, UNIX, or even MacOS, as long as we like it
and it can do everything we need. From what I am hearing GNU/Linux will
defiantly work for what we need.

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