[Discussion] [Linux] os/2 on linux

[Felmon Davis]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, jim.scott at scottelectronic.com wrote:

> ** Reply to note from Thomas Clayton <topcatdrc at yahoo.com> Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:53:44 -0800 (PST)
> 
> Hi Tom!
> 
> I had tried several different different installs: Free-BSD, Suse, 
> CentOS, Ibuntu, Knoppix, and more. 

well, 'Free-BSD' is not Linux, right? but my real question is did you 
actually _install_ Knoppix? I did that once and got some warnings from 
some (knowledgeable) fellows on some forum that it is not meant to be 
installed, just used as a live-CD.

as I recall, there were some problems upgrading stuff and I also 
didn't want all the software that came along with the install. 

(I switched to RedHat yrs ago before Centos and such existed, and then 
to SuSE/OpenSuSE and now a mix of the latter and Debian.

> PCLinuxOS shows promise and has made a nice effort.  I have given 
> away a lot of ISO CDs to get guys started - convincing them to take 
> an old machine they were going to junk, and wipe WIN off.  I'm 
> amazed at the comments! However, many flavors are not like this, and 
> I'm afraid that these gurus don't understand how to appeal or deal 
> with the public.  Sometimes I think they are right out of "The Big 
> Bang" :-O

I don't think ease of install or ease of use of the GUI is the 
stumbling block to mainstream acceptance. 

quick remark about installs: I recently replaced the hard-drive in the 
laptop of a friend's daughter and using the OEM's cds reinstalled 
Vista. the install was mostly hands_off but it took _hours_! I would 
have been up and running in Linux in about 30 minutes.

Felmon

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