Linux for wimps ;-)

Subject: [unitescommunity] Linux for wimps ;-)
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:21:36 +0000
From: J Cravens <jcravens42@yahoo.com>
To: unitescommunity@yahoogroups.com

I'm not sure how available "Xandros" is to volunteers in developing
countries... I found this testimonial about it very interesting --
it's from a person who is a tutor at Open University for a
technology-related course. I'm posting it here because a while back,
some people said that the reason Linux isn't used as an operating
system is because it's too hard to install (never mind that MS is even
harder to install, but you don't know that because it's usually
already installed on your machine...):

--- Begin forwarded message ---

I finally got round to installing Linux on my spare PC. So I stuck a
Xandros CD in the drive, rebooted, clicked a few buttons, and 15
minutes later had a working Linux system. And when I say working, I
mean *everything* worked, without me having to configure anything,
other than supply an IP address: Internet access, mounting network
shares on the Windows PCs, printing to a networked printer ... it is
really slick. Anyone capable of installing Windows could do this.

Then I confess I wimped out even further, went off to [
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html ]XAMPP, downloaded and
unpacked a single tarball, and hey presto, Apache, MySQL and PHP are
up and running now! Admittedly the default setup of this is terribly
insecure, but you can fix that after installing.

I admit Xandros isn't for geeks, but if you just want to get Linux
installed and start working productively in the minimum amount of
time, it's hard to beat. Looks nice too!

----- End forwarded message ------

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