Hewlet Packard and Linux

[Charles Crawford]

Liz,

         I think you are wise to get ahead of the game by doing the stuff 
Linux can do without the heartaches of configure configure configure.  If 
Linux is to make the mainstream or at least a brook, then it has to work 
for the average person without too much of the configuring issues.  I know, 
its kind of plug and play, but why not have our cake and eat it too?  We 
get the ease of setup and the power of Linux.  What's not to like?  Smile.

         My bigger concern is the Xwindows problem of a repeat of what 
Windows did to DOS.

-- Charlie.
At 04:12 PM 08/24/2001 -0400, you wrote:

>>"no market," but the radical truth is more like "We haven't a
>>clue of how to get money for it."
>
>Forgive a comment from an extreme newbie who doesn't even *have* Linux yet.
>
>I've been looking at the companies who make Linux preinstalled systems 
>(there's a long list at linux.org), and they seem to have some kind of 
>market niche because some of them use hardware that has been tested and is 
>known to be Linux-compatible.  With the Windoze dominance of the entire 
>computing market, it's attractive to me to buy a system whose components 
>are known to be compatible with Linux.  It seems better than ordering 
>elsewhere and not being sure the different parts of the system will work 
>well with Linux.
>
>any comments or thoughts?
>
>Liz
>Liz Hare, Ph.D.
>Research Associate
>Animal Breeding and Genetics Group
>B47 Morrison Hall
>Cornell University
>Ithaca, NY 14853
>(607) 255 2380
>eh51 at cornell.edu
>
>
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