[SWLUG] mass marketing Linux?

[Julian Hall]

For distro I'd go for Xandros - Debian based, file-manager looks similar 
to Windows, but obviously none of the bugs.  The free version comes with 
a raft of goodies, Firefox, T'bird, GIMP, Open Office etc, and of course 
you can add whatever is missing using the Xandros Networks utility 
(apt-get GUI I think).

For multiple installs I would get a Win98 boot disk, and a copy of Ghost 
(DOS based version).  That recognises Linux partitions *and* will back 
them into a CD burnable image file.  Do one PC as you want it, make the 
image, then inflate it to all the other machines.  You can do roughly 
one every 20 minutes that way :)

Kind regards,

Julian

Dave Cridland wrote:
> On Mon Feb 13 19:33:55 2006, Glasiad wrote:
>> [TEXT/HTML body]
>
> I've actually written the reformatter for this just not yet plugged it 
> into the code, but still - plain text - ideally format=flowed - is 
> always better on any mailing list. It's also smaller, by a sizeable 
> margin, and works better on constrained devices.
>
> Now, moving on...
>
> What my company has been known to do with machines like this is 
> install Ubuntu on them for use as email/web workstations. We've at 
> least one customer who specifically asked for this, so their "work" 
> computer (which has all the accounts on, etc) is not connected to the 
> Internet, whereas the Ubuntu machine is.
>
> We stuck with GNOME for this particular customer, and he's perfectly 
> happy with it. This is someone who had never used Linux before, and 
> we've had one support call back from it. He's now quite keen to switch 
> his work machine, but with the accounts data, that's a little more 
> involved.
>
> Dave.



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