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Re: [PLUG] Win98 End of Life -> Lin98?
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On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 17:50, LeRoy Cressy wrote:
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> Debian now fills up 11 CD's with Sarge. You only need the first cd to
> do a remote install. One of the selling points of Linux is the ability
> for you to provide remote upgrades to their system, along wi you
> providing all the support that they need.
>
> For instance one of my Windows clients is switching over to Linux for
> that very point. When he needs assistance I can ssh to his network and
> work on his system. I can also run his X apps on my system so I know
> what he is talking about.
>
> With windows there is no remote administration and instant fixes for the
> client. Thus you are able to save your clients time and money by
> converting to Linux.
>
> With Debian you can make a heavy duty system with all of the bells and
> whistles like the kde desktop, or a minimum system firewall running on a
> p75 chip with 32M RAM. the choice is yours. I have an old P75 running
> as my mail server.
>
> I might upgrade it to a P300 that I grabbed from a box I found on trash day.
>
> Hope that you are sucessful with your clients.
>
The reason i look at distro specific option is because i may not want to
try to support a zillion different desktop configurations - not that
supporting a zillion different distros is that easy either - but at
least if there is specific distro - then i know that it might get
maintained by others and/or others may have solved similar issues that i
might encounter. and if it's commercial - maybe even pay for help if it
becomes necessary. it just may end up that it i create a "special"
configuration for win98 users - then I might package it - so that others
can benefit and help with maintenance.
A good example is the recent WBEL announcement. After redhat EOL'd (or
is that DOA) Red Hat Linux, I downloaded all the SRPMS for RHEL 3 -
thinking I would do this very thing, roll my own RHEL. I gave pause to
the notion because I wasn't sure that I would be able to really support
my own install. However, with WBEL there is a growing community - so now
I'm comfortable that I can help support it _and_ get help from the
community that forms around it. I'd like to see/do the same thing with
the Win98 replacement idea. Sure - it could be based on Debian, that's a
good choice. But more importantly is making sure others are
using/supporting the system as it's configured. So maybe a morphix fork
would do?
> Alex Birch wrote:
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> > W. Chris Shank wrote:
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> >> the question is- where can i get a distro that supports that?
> >>
> > Debian... apt-get install fvwm95. I agree that you may want to get a
> > nice fast computer and then use the older computers as terminals. Then
> > the users can use the latest and greatest without suffering.
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