Selling Linux to Windows Users

[H.S.]

Michael Haney wrote:
> 
> True, most basic maintenance of a Linux box can be done via a terminal
> connection which works fine on a 56k modem connection.

I have to disagree with you on this one if I understand the usage of
"basic" here correctly. I would say /most/ of the maintenance can be
done remotely via a shell. The only thing that cannot be done is the
configuration of look and feel where visual feedback is desired. Using
vnc, even that is hardly difficult.

For now, if I can find a way to login a user via the gdm but from a
shell prompt, I would not even need a user at the remote machine to help
me do anything at all!


> 
> Windows has actually improve in this area, surprisingly.  It used to
> be under the very earliest versions of Windows (3.0, 3.1) which ran on
> top of MS/PC-DOS removing a program might get rid of a .DLL which was
> shared by other applications.  It didn't happen often but it was known
<SNIP>
> These can be a double edged sword, on one hand they are easier to
> modify and take up less room than the Windows Registry which can grow

I recall having do go through something similar in RedHat 7, 8, 9 days.
Then I discovered Debian and dpkg and apt. Debian had such a robust
packaging system that I completely switched and have never looked back.
It had nothing like the rpm-hell in RH. No wonder Ubuntu chose Debain! ;)





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