After posting this, I wandered over to the tclug website, classified
section and coincidentally ran across this add right away. :)

 http://www.mn-linux.org/cgi-bin/classifieds/classifieds.cgi?catagory=computerwanted

-mj



And hence AUTHOR wrote: Michael Jentges
>
> And hence AUTHOR wrote: Justin Haaheim
>> If I'm not mistaken, the idea of giving out the cd's is to attract
>> people to linux.
>
> That's how I read it. LINUX. Not RH9, specifically. Here I have a slack
> 4, rh5.2, slack 7.0, 7.1, 8.1, RH 6.2, 7.2 (2) ...  LINUX. (I never do
> .0 RH.) When time permits I was pondering replacing rh5.2 with 7.3, or
> if they have a .1 out by then, sure. No, there's no debian. Without
> getting deep let's just say I think I have too much 'management' in my
> life already. :)
>
>>I'm not sure that having a weeding agent helps our
>> cause.
>
> Sir, merely a figure of speech, intended to point out that I rather
> doubt anyone would NOT take a free CD if it weren't RH9. They might even
> be pleased to know there was more than one variety.
>
>>Sure, a redhat system and a slack system and a gentoo system are
>>  all fundamentally similar -- they're all linux.  But installing
>> gentoo
>> took me days and installing redhat took me 45 minutes.
>
> Prior to your Gentoo adventure, what distribution did you usually run?
>
>>If the people
>> we're giving these cd's to are well-versed and interested in spending
>> the time on a debian or gentoo install, then fine, but then I don't
>> think those kind of people would immediately associate linux with
>> redhat.
>
> If not, all they see/try/know of is Redhat then?  What if they have
> issues with some of the default installation configuration and are
> unable to 'easily and transparently' resolve it? I.E. The 'default
> firewall' or auto partitioning, etc.
>
>>Keep in mind, there's a difference between associating linux
>> with redhat and associating easy-and-transparent-linux with redhat.
>
> Well I can promise you that I will NEVER associate 'easy and
> transparent' with redhat. Again, that's just me. Ford/Chevy Coke/Pepsi,
> whatever. I just like to be aware of the fact that both exist and while
> one goes smooth for you it doesn't for me but the other has a cool can,
> so I'll try that one once.
>
> Been to HP/Compaq website lately? WinXP, Win2kPRO, and MANDRAKE Linux
> are the OS choices on the new Evo BUSINESS desktop PC's there. At least
> the 310, 510 series. I personally am a slackh0 but I think that's pretty
> d**n cool
> an outfit of those proportions is doing this.
>
> I'm rather strapped for $$, and I don't know where all the media is
> coming from but I DO have a fairly new (up to) 48x burner and work out
> of my house and would be happy to start a mass production of a variety
> of installation ISO's if I had the media. Would it help if I picked up a
> spool of 50 (or whatever) and burned them? I can certainly do that. In
> fact I just happen to have a $10 orafice max coupon here somewhere iirc.
>  :)
>
> -mj
>
> P.S. If this is in any way a Redhat Sponsored event, please disregard
> the
>      message above in it's entirety.
>
>
>>
>> justin
>>
>>
>>>I do see a trend where "linux" to many new/curious folks means REDHAT,
>>> and in the past have found that 'linux support' meant that there was
>>> an RPM available, nothing more. That just ain't right. There should
>>> be fair and equal "billing" for all. If someone passes because all
>>> you have left are Debian, Slack, Gentoo or whatever then I'd consider
>>> that a good "weeding agent" and let them pass.
>>>
>>>.02
>>>
>>>-mj
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I think one of the great things about linux and
>>>>open source is that you're not locked into one vendor's distro.  I
>>>> think it's important to get that message out so people don't get the
>>>> idea that RedHat = Linux.  There are always alternatives...
>>>>
>>>>Personally, I think Debian might be too much for a new user doing an
>>>> initial install without assistance.  But for a workstation, and for
>>>> someone who doesn't want to compile everything, it rocks.  The
>>>> package management is far superior to rpm, IMHO.
>>>>
>>>>Slackware's installer is menu driven and straight forward.  Accepting
>>>> the defaults (like redhat installs) gets you a running system in no
>>>> time.  It detects most common PC hardware out of the box.  It just
>>>> works.  Makes a great workstation and gives you the flexibility to
>>>> learn more when you're ready to start compiling stuff from source.
>>>>
>>>>distro flames > /dev/null
>>>>--
>>>>scot
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