Re: Distro question

Stephen, my two cents:
I personally would keep them away from a commercial linux product. If
they are your clients you will want to keep them that way. Providing
free software solutions from distros like Mandrake, Fedora, and others
you are able to offer "Free" software and sell your support. You don't
want your clients calling Xandros! Keep the money in Alaska.

I'm not saying there is no place for commercial products in business or
home computing.

I have setup users with very basic computer skills on Mandrake. If they
can email, write letters, do the family budget, share docuements, surf
the web, print and so forth they are happy. Not to mention the
interface is just a pleasing to the eye as XP.

TJ
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 12:32, Stephen King wrote:

> Got a client who is considering switching to Linux. They read a review
> that said Xandros is an awesome distribution and they're considering
> buying it (as near as I can tell, there's no GPL version). Anybody here
> have any experience with that distro? As far as I can tell, the only
> real advantages to it over the new editions of either RH or SuSE are
> point and click Windows domain interfacing (which they don't need) and
> the fact that StarOffice is included (which is debatable for them).
>
> Stephen King
> Instructor, Information Technology
> Charter College
> 2221 E. Northern Lights Suite 120
> Anchorage, AK 99508
> (907) 777-1370
> =20
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Received on Mon Apr 12 09:17:56 2004