* bob parker (bob_parker@dodo.com.au) [030417 11:58]: > Linux was ready for the desktop quite some time ago, especially Debian. > OK it's not that wonderful to install but how many Windows users install > their own system? Very few I'll bet. This is a very important but seldom realized point. I invite anyone who claims that "Linux is hard to install" to attempt a ground-up install of any version of windows. > If you look at the most common user needs; word processing, simple > spreadsheets with just row/column sums and maybe a little date display and > arithmetic. Add to those a web browser and email client and you've covered > 90% or more I'd bet. Precisely. Shockingly, they're all convinved that they need a 2+GHz Pentium 4 to run such a terminal. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -- E.W. Dijkstra
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