On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 14:21, Colburn wrote: > 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 > > I like that idea, kind da sounds like Ximian. I for one can't wait for the new Ximian desktop to come out. Mark
