Joe raises an interesting possibility here ... though I do not think he intended to do so. What about a secondary market provider offering to burn a custom CD containing selected add-ins and other mods to the generic RedHat distro? Customers would provide detailed info about hardware, plus a list of what one wanted added to and removed from the RH distro (from a limited menu of choices specified by the vendor -- selections they were reasonably certain their install code could assure functionality in the given distro and specified hardware). The CD would arrive and once inserted automagically perform the necessary no-user-intervention-required processes. Said vendor could also provide update CDs as customers requested (and paid for). This would seem to have the possibility of meeting the needs of newbies who just will not tolerate tinkering with dependencies, freshmeat rpms, drivers, etc. The vendor could also serve as a clearinghouse for pre-purchase hardware choices that would be fully compatible with the customized RH setup. RedHat would not be responsible for anything this vendor did and would be freed from the the abject terror of lawsuits that currently has them cowering in an ever-shrinking little red box. WDYT? doc > No, do not like redhat out of the box, but > I'm comfortable with redhat, and have a > standard list of fixes and tweaks that I > perform upon installation, and for desktop > boxes, a trip to freshrpms, gurulabs and/or > fedora rounds things out - and Ihave to > say it it works pretty well for me. > > In time, I trust that the Linux movement, > having finally begun to focus on desktop > issues, will achieve the same excellence > which has resulted in such growth in the > server arena - it's just a matter of time. > > Joe
