This is specific for the Fredericton group... but all opinions welcome

Joel Goguen jtgoguen at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 23:36:35 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 18:55 -0400, Andrew Mathenge wrote:
> Are you thinking of building a custom machine as an alternative to
> Vista for your customers? If so, you'd need to do more than just an
> operating system build. Most users don't really care about the
> operating system, it's the applications and installing them in Windows
> is fairly easy, while finding them and installing them and using them
> in Linux can sometimes be a challenge. Just check out the Ubuntu
> support forums. 
The alternate CD install provides an OEM option which I've used before.
It works rather well for getting common applications installed and
setting things up that typically require a command line.  The Ubuntu
forums would be a great place to start looking to see what applications
we should have pre-installed.

-- 
Joel Goguen
http://jgoguen.net/
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange
protein -- it rejects it.  -- P. Medawar
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