On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:05:21AM +0100, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions mentioned:
> > Just ship it with opendos or something - enough to say "I
> > booted from the hard disk, looks like it's working, now
> > install what you want".
> That is working on the presumption that the only linux users or potential
> linux users have the inclination, time and skill to install an OS.
Hardly a fantastic presumption though. Assuming a chimp can install SuSE
these days (I've not actually tried it) on a laptop that works fine with
SuSE, a Linux User can too. Even one of those "I run gentoo for that extra
3% increase in kernel compiles" guys.
john
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