On Tuesday, October 1, 2002 C Moss wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:32:06PM -0400, Robert L. Cochran wrote: > > Is money really the issue? I've tried persuading a friend to use Red Hat > > in any version for a couple years now. At his request I've given him CD > > sets ever since versions 6.1 or 6.2. He still hasn't installed Red Hat. > > I'll give him my 8.0 CD set too, but this time I'll try to supply some > > color screen shots with them as a carrot. Well a Hershey Bar? > > You might want to invite him over to watch you do an install on one of your > boxes. Another option to whet his appetite would be to give him a run from > CD distro to play with. Knoppix is a great tool for getting people > interested.
You can tell him Linux will take a lot less time and effort to install and maintain. As I write this I'm about eighteen hours into replacing Window 98 with a fresh install of Windows 2000 Pro on a Dell C600 laptop at the office. It's taking forever to collect all the drivers from Dell's web site before upgrading, and all the Windows Updates afterwards using a 128 kbps frame relay line. I haven't even begun the Office 2000 updates yet. Its one reboot after another, after another, after another.... It took me less than five hours to do the equivalent bare metal RH7.3 install my own personal laptop. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL --------------------------------------------- This message was sent from Peaknet, Inc. http://www.peaknet.net/