RE: LINUX Workstations

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why can't we download and burn a CD and boot from the CD and have it do a
total install on  a Windows machine, without blowing away the Windows
partition?  Or can we? 
 
(Joe is right.  Software is measured today by its lack of need for
instructions.  Thats why the browser interface is so successful.  Hasn't it
fascinated you that there's no such thing as "Netscape for Dummies"?  Even
dummies can't get it wrong.   Linux has got to reach that degree of self
installation in order to ever get traction in the desktop market.  

Antother question:  How does Star Office on Linux work compared to how Star
office works on Windows?  I am using Star Office 7.0 and so far it is pretty
satisfying.
 
 
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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: Thursday, October 02, 2003 18:03:37
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: LINUX Workstations
 
> From: R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
>
> True, but if you can read a README file in the DOSUTILS directory and
you
> can download things like eclipse, then you can download and run
rawrite
> against the .img files and create the diskettes...
 
I don't WANT to read a README file. Installing Eclipse on Windows is
pretty much just running the installer. No boot floppies, nothing like
that. And as Booth says, I don't even have a working floppy on that
machine. But I'll give it a shot. It's not IMPOSSIBLE, just a little
intimidating, especially if I DIDN'T have the experience I have, which
is above and beyond that of many typical iSeries programmers.
 
Joe