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Old 08-02-2000, 03:19 AM   #7
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That's the beauty of these specialty distributions to me Mairving.

People in small to mid sized companies use buggy as hell Windows networks to run their company business on. Why? Because NT is well known and paper MCSE's are a dime a dozen. Linux has for too long been a "specialty" OS for us tinkerers, but with these stripped down and specialized distributions, the average user who doesn't care to know how his machine works can utilize the reliability of a REAL os as well. I think they're great ideas.

Besides, the stereotypical small company owner we're talking about doesn't know how his Windows box works, so not knowing how the Linux box works either is hardly hindering him. Might as well go with the more stable of the two OS choices. A few seem to be catching onto this idea here of late.

Of course they could all solve their stability issues and keep a great graphical OS by going with MAC machines for these small networks, but that's pricey and another topic for another forum . People will always fear and hate what they don't understand...

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