Re: January meeting

[Craig@currantbun <nospam [at] currantbun.com>]

>> 4) Speed of deployment. Put simply, build a PC, install Win95, and
>> be on the network with Office97 and full network printer support in 3
>> hours. However, teaching a co-worker the most basic of commands
>> (ls,cd,mkdir and the like) took more time than I'd like. Although this
>> is not that far removed from MS-DOS commands, the fear factor prevents
>> many people seeing how elegantly simply the whole thing fits together.
>>
>I've got to disagree here....... I recently purchased a copy of Suse6.3
>installed it (default settings though), and had it running with all the
>graphic, internet, office features in about 1-2 hours.
>the settup wasn't ideal by any means, but most windows users wouldn't
>notice!
>

Fair comment. I use SuSE 6.2 plus SuSE6.3beta which I got from the Demo
Week. I completely installed the system in 45 minutes (pre-saved YaST
config). However, that would be fine if only I built machines, but I'd have
to show the other lads how to do it as well (although the bloke I work with
is showing a definate interest in all things penguin related!).

Also, you're right, Windows users wouldn't notice. My MD went for 4 months
running W95 in safe mode and didn't notice things like 16 colours, 640x480,
no CDROM etc. Also, as Robert pointed out (see my previous mail) why not
just tarball the whole thing and deploy across a network.

Also, 3 hours is a very long time. My machine, with 3 hdd's containing Win98
and SuSE6.2 took just two hours to build, one hour of which was configuring
Windows stuff!

Like I said before, keep the comments coming...

Craig

Oh, and tragic news. I have been forced to remove SuSE 6.0 from my work PC
HDD, as it was 'causing incompatible things to happen' (not my words.
honest). Anyway, I'm rebelling by keeping a copy of tomsrtbt on a floppy.
Not quite KDE but better than DOS!!

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