Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Like George Bonser has said previously, I think the only way that
> Debian is going to grow its market share better than its currently
> growing is for the creation of a commercial company which adopts
> Debian as its base distribution. This company can provide
> corporate support to enhance Debian's position in the corporate
> world, and improve the install and maintenance of the system, by
> adding new software which isn't a priority for current Debian
> developers....
I dunno. There's a lot of people who would like to find out about
Linux, but aren't prepared to bet the whole farm on it sight unseen.
They'll pay say 1100 bucks for a white box PII machine with Windows 98
installed without a qualm however (I did anyhow a couple months ago).
Would they demur at paying say 1115 dollars for the same machine with
Win 98 on one partition and Debian on another? Of course not-- and
some dealers would even think "WINDOWS AND LINUX!!!" worthy of
advertising.
I don't see any great problem getting Debian onto a million new boxes,
in other words, if someone takes the trouble to assure PC sellers
that installing Debian is simple and easy and exceptionally cheap.
There'd be a potential problem dealing with newby customers who had
Debian on their systems and weren't quite hip on the subject of
Linux, but that's another issue.
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