On (21/10/04 14:59), s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from William Ballard: > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:16:21PM -0700, Gilbert, Joseph wrote: > > > session and found that KDE had autodetected my sound card. You may want to > > > have them give Sarge a try. It may be a lot easier than even you suspect... > > > > This isn't a technical thing, so much as a motivation thing. I actually > > Exactly. I'd guess the best you could do is set them up with a dual > boot system, and beg them to try it for a week. Give them Evo for > mail, and OO. You better ensure everything works correctly "out of > the box", and is secured, or they'll just end up with yet another > insecure and unstable platform. You'll probably need to consider data > migration issues too. How to get their mail from Windows to Linux and > back again? You're also going to be their sysadmin for a while; do > you have remote access to their machines? Are they going to trust you > to be root on their machines? > > Maybe you should wait until the next disaster befalls them (shouldn't > be long). They may then be better motivated to accept the challenge.
Have a look at Xandros 2.0 Open edition. It's Debian based and seems to auto-detect most things. It is a halfway house between windows and debian and we installed it on a few machines with some success. One of the great things is that it mounts the windows drives so that you can see them from Xandros. Regards Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
