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Adrian Midgley wrote: | On Thursday 02 December 2004 16:25, Paul Sutton wrote: | |>My friend who runs farseerenterprises (www.farseerenterprises.com)in torbay |>wants to produce a line of PC's running Linux. | | Does a business about to trade in boxes want a contract with a supplier of the | software to backstop problems?
Possibly, but their clients almost certainly will if they don't have one ;)
| If so then SuSE or whatever. | | Alternatively, if it is local backup or internal backup, Debian would be the | right one. | | I would suggest stripping it down a bit to reduce the choices and possible | support calls for the original base install.
UserLinux fits the bill here - okay early days, but it is basically about agreeing to a small maintainable set of apps. Doesn't stop you varying one or two for a client, but about making a business model for Debian support that multiple companies agree on.
Interestingly I've been pondering hardware issues for UserLinux, one idea I had for small computer shops, is that we should produce a "clone" specification. i.e. This case, powersupply, motherboard, graphics card, must have these interfaces, this much memory, these CPUs, so that small PC vendors could build a box to some sort of agreed hardware standard, and share expertise (or costs) in configuring and preparing drivers etc.
The UserLinux goal is to offer "Certification" for hardware, but smaller vendors can't afford that for a clone, but a basic plan for a UserLinux "compatible" box would be fine, and would mirror the software model well.
At the moment about the only thing agreed is the term "UserLinux Compatible" can be used by hardware vendors who believe it works, but my experience with "enterpise" hardware, is that generic PC compatibility is lightyears behind, and we need to start bringing some of that sort of engineering to clone PCs.
Paul if this approach is interesting to your friend, put him in touch. Even before the release of UserLinux you can start from their agreed software list, and if necessary use a vanilla Debian install for the moment.
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