----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 4:54 AM Subject: Re: Boxed set not available anywhere > > > > 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.... >
You could try to show him this: http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/flash/redhat6_5.html
