[UCLA-LUG] suggestion for install fest

[Joshua Barratt]

Well, it'd help if you gave us some info about what type of connection you
have, (ppp? dsl? dorms?) what distro/version of linux, and what (if
anything) you have tried already. But yes, unless you have a spectacularly
odd problem, we probably can help.

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Ty Kaing wrote:

;Hi,
;    Can you help me with linux?  I have it installed but I can't seem to get
;the internet to work.  Can you help me?
;----- Original Message -----
;From: tchow <kodiak@linux.ucla.edu>
;To: <linux@linux.ucla.edu>
;Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:23 PM
;Subject: Re: [UCLA-LUG] suggestion for install fest
;
;
;> Norman Danner wrote:
;>
;> > Since there's an install fest coming up, *and* the LUG is thinking of
;> > putting together a UCLA distribution, it might be interesting to have a
;> > questionaire at the install fest asking people what they would want in
;> > a distro.
;>
;> Most of the people who come to the installfest are relatively new to
;linux.
;> a survey that can correctly show us what people want in a distro would be
;> great, but i don't think the newbies would be able to give us this very
;well.
;>
;> > Possibly give some choices of some of the larger things and
;> > ask for them to be ranked, making it clear that not all of the large
;> > packages can be in a single distribution.
;>
;> we cleared out a lot of room in the redhat distro.  so we could put in
;lots
;> of new/large packages.  again i don't think newbies know what they want.
;> (the installees that i've helped don't know what to say to "kde or
;gnome?")
;>
;> >  Maybe ask what would be
;> > necessary in a Linux OS to convince a person to scrap Windows from
;> > his/her machine altogether.
;>
;> if we knew what people really needed in order to toss windows, it would be
;> great.  If you truthfully ask them, I don't think normal people actually
;need
;> too much of linux for it to be a windows replacement, but the real reason
;> they are clinging to windows is because they don't want to learn something
;> new.  Anyway, let me sum up what your typical windows user uses...(taken
;> scientifically from studies of my roommate and 'dows using friends)
;>
;> icq
;> word processing
;> mp3
;> email
;> www
;> solitaire
;> graphical file manager
;>
;> the above is already well implemented in linux, unless of course people
;> insist on using MS word...
;>
;> so why do "normal" people use windows then?  probably because the world is
;> structured so that people gravitate towards windows...
;>
;> tchow
;>
;> >
;>
;> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
;> > norman
;ndanner@math.ucla.edu
;> > "Strides of chaos"
;http://www.math.ucla.edu/~ndanner
;> >
;> >     Department of Mathematics    University of California, Los Angeles
;> >                              ----
;> >                  The sun, with all those planets
;> >                  revolving around it and dependent on it,
;> >                  can still ripen a bunch of grapes
;> >                  as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
;> >                    -- Galileo
;>
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