Re: [LUG] Farseer enterprises

[alan <amd@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 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 this friend have any experience with linux ?
If they asking for a general concensus, they will have a hard time IMHO.
I think they should be researching linux compat. hardware first, then 
categorise that hardware by distro compat.
After that, they should build a box to that spec. and get everything 
running properly (ppp usb etc)
Once that is done, they have a pattern for future builds.

They will have to support these boxes after all ;-)

Personally I favour FC2/FC3 as an easy to use windows-a-like (I even 
have an XP silver skin on my install) and although they still take some 
configuring , they work great for basic email/web/office boxes.
Also, FC2 isn't including crippled software (xine - dvd / xmms - mp3) 
like some I can mention (suse).
And yum is a breeze.

so it depends on what they are wanting to offer and to whom ....

If they are doing these machines just for "end-users" then the desktop 
environment is key, otherwise, most distros will run servers like 
apache/mysql/pgsql/sendmail etc.

Also, I think that once they have established a line of machines that 
run linux properly, they should sell those machines at the relevant 
discount compared to windows boxes, to underline the financial benefits 
of linux. Ok, so they need a bit more working out initially, but why 
else would joe public consider moving away from windows ?

Just my thoughts anyway.

regards

alan

ps. your friend needs to work on his website :-/

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