Re: Distibutions (was KDE Debian distribution)

2002-02-21 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thursday 21 February 2002 07:20 am, Jens Benecke wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:18:00AM +, Nick Bailey wrote: [snip] > What brand is it? I was considering a Dell. I would like a 15" screen > (or 14" with 1400x1050), 128 or 256MB RAM, decent CPU (wel

Re: Distibutions (was KDE Debian distribution)

2002-02-21 Thread Nick Bailey
On Thursday 21 Feb 2002 9:34 am, Gregor Zeitlinger wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Jens Benecke wrote: > > > > A) Preloading. Persuade Dell or Compaq to load Linux > > > > on *ALL* machines (and sell Windows as an optional > > > > upgrade). > > > > > > That helps for business machines. > > >

Re: Distibutions (was KDE Debian distribution)

2002-02-21 Thread Gregor Zeitlinger
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Jens Benecke wrote: > > > A) Preloading. Persuade Dell or Compaq to load Linux on *ALL* > > > machines (and sell Windows as an optional upgrade). > > > > > That helps for business machines. > > It helps for everyone. Not only Dell and Compaq, but also companies like > Stap

Re: Distibutions (was KDE Debian distribution)

2002-02-20 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wednesday 20 February 2002 01:31 pm, Jens Benecke wrote: [snip] > > Plus, Microsoft has started a really big FUD campaign about the GPL, > which makes many vendors uneasy. At the same time they put stuff like > "we have a right to know what is on your harddis

Re: Distibutions (was KDE Debian distribution)

2002-02-20 Thread Bastiaan Naber
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 14:33, Michel Loos wrote: > > B) Games. Kids had absolutely no problems spending WEEKS trying > >to customize CONFIG.SYS, installing new memory managers, > >hacking their system to get more free RAM, just for DOOM to > >be 0.2% faster. > >

Re: Distibutions (was KDE Debian distribution)

2002-02-20 Thread Michel Loos
> Two things need to be done: > > A) Preloading. Persuade Dell or Compaq to load Linux on *ALL* > machines (and sell Windows as an optional upgrade). > That helps for business machines. > B) Games. Kids had absolutely no problems spending WEEKS trying > to customi

Re: Distibutions (was KDE Debian distribution)

2002-02-20 Thread Bastiaan Naber
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 00:17, Gregor Zeitlinger wrote: <> Well build your own kde based distribution! Shouldn't be to hard. And if your right you will have a winning product, can become milionair, etc. I agree people don't want to hear about al these versions of this and versions of

Distibutions (was KDE Debian distribution)

2002-02-19 Thread Gregor Zeitlinger
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 11:33:28 +0100 (CET) Gregor Zeitlinger <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are asking about a Distribution, try http://www.libranet.com. > Just started shipping v2.0. I was reather looking for something KDE only to save disk space and