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To: JC Jaros who wrote (47767)	7/14/2000 7:43:14 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) of 74651

JC - putting Linux on a desktop is not a problem of Unix administration - once you get everything shaken out, it's just like any Unix box. But getting to that point is a real chore in my experience. I have lots of spare parts lying around and when I need a new box to do something, I grab the pieces and throw something together. But when I went to do a Linux box, that didn't work. None of my video cards were supported - I had to buy one. None of my NICs were supported - I had to buy one. Getting my rag-tag hard disks to play was a chore. Putting Linux up on a new, plain-vanilla box is a lot easier. And backward compatibility is getting better every day. And more and more of the big OEMs are doing the work to make their desktop products Linux ready. I expect that there will be a lot of new and better support announced at Linux World next month. But what I took away from Merry's posts was that whatever her software savvy, she was not too comfortable with the hardware side, and in today's world, that's a requirement to get a Linux box up.

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