* Joel T Schneider <jts at tc.umn.edu> [010602 08:04]: > masses of business computer users couldn't care less about "the > community." By my definition, "the desktop" is different than "the > community" -- the government recently declared that Microsoft currently > enjoys effective monopoly control over "the desktop." Linux faces obsticales in presenting itself as 'the desktop' as the first-learning-time/chance to a user. Not that it cant do the same things. I've tought people how to use linux with very little windows experience at all and its fun to see them bitch and whine in front of a windows machine. :) Mind you, this isn't teaching them how to administrate a machine. Thats something thats being taken care of by Mandrake and Progeny. -- Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> <sdier at debian.org> http://www.ringworld.org/ #linuxos at irc.openprojects.net Sinclair: "No boom?" Garibaldi: "No boom." Ivanova: "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. Always a boom tomorrow." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010602/8edd3377/attachment.pgp