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Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:06:46 -0700
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: This & that, from 6-19-02 meeting

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> > a contrarion, willing to take the extra trouble
> and
> > swim against the tide.

--- Ray Davison wrote:

> The closest I find to that in the Win world is the
> Corel list. And they
> never question Win itself.

The dilemma for us and for Linux is that to have a
shot at a mass-market kind of acceptance (leaving
aside for the moment arguments like marketing,
advertising, publicity, and universal apps coverage)
you need to have a transparent, no-thinking-required
install of the OS itself (for most of the hardware
that is out there), for the hardware drivers, and for
the apps. Plus the applying of periodic updates for
same. That is kind of a minimum. No BS of the kind
I've seen on one box since eCS 1.1, where the dual
built-in NICs seem to stymie the eCS installer, such
that it bugs out at the PEER portion, and PEER never
does go on. *We* put up with that sort of thing, but
no one else would.

Once you get past that point, the game shifts over to
the apps. You still need to learn how to use them,
and the heavyweight ones like PhotoShop are not going
to be a cakewalk.

Jordan

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