TW> I highly doubt that. I took a fling at KNOPPIX becasue so many were
 TW> Raving about it .
 TW> Well while it has excellent Hardware support it is still NOT ready for
 TW> the Big Time. I also have been played a Sucker for the 5th time and am
 TW> going to Try Mandrake 9.2 also but the word in that while it is FAr
 TW> better then Red Hat it is still not all that good for the "Casual Home
 TW> User.
 TW> I thin kmuch of the Hype about Linux is just Sour Grapes and as they
 TW> say "Misery Loves Company". So they hype it up and Sucker
others in to
 TW> joining giving them soemoen ot Laugh at or somethoing. I really don't
 TW> know. BUt it is really a very poorly designed Operating System for the
 TW> "Average" HOME user.

I agree. :)  I've tried Knoppix and a older version of Red Hat, both suck 
big time.

I believe that Lx has a place and that place is for those who want to build 
a system around the Kernal - a tightly focused thing and you can probably 
make a very lean machine that way.

But as far as 'run out of the box' thing forget it!   Mounting and 
unmounting things is pain in the ass and if Windows had you doing that the 
Lx dudes would be laughing their ass off.

Lx is making a move in the business world, that's for sure - but again it 
fits the above.  Tightly focused machines to do one thing well.

My only reason to play with it at all was to see if I could do something 
for my son who runs a small plastics company.  His heart and soul are tied 
to "Peachtree' as it does all his inventory, books, mailing labels etc.  No 
app even close out there in Lx world.

Windows 98SE blows it away across the board.   Easy to use, tons of apps, 
tons of drivers, and a few warts that you can stay away from by using 
Mozilla firebird as a browser and Eudora as mail client.



 
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