On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:38:39AM -0800, sudog wrote:
> On Thursday 21 February 2002 10:15, Ram Chandar wrote:
> > Richard Rauch mentioned in one of the posts in the thread "advocacy"
> > 
> > > If one really wants a ``pop the CD in, and get something that has
> > > NetBSD buried in it somewhere but looks and feels like an unbelievably 
> > > stable version of a Microsoft product'' 
> > 
> > Infact there is such an attempt on Linux which even goes to the extent
> > to put "My Computer" and "Network Neighbourhood" on the Desktop.
> 
> That's odd. I thought this was a NetBSD-advocacy mailing list? :)
> 
> > This is avaiable for free download. I don't have the bandwidth, so I was
> > just wondering if somebody could take a look.
> > 
> > The site is www.elxlinux.com.
> 
> Why of course! I'll be happy to volunteer the eight or nine hours it'll 
> take to backup my current systems, strip out any cards that might cause 
> problems or conflicts, and install an OS that looks like Windows but is 
> actually Linux just because you don't have the patience to download it 
> over your modem link.

Why did you take the mention of a product to be a demand that you do
something about it? To me it looked just like information - 'competitive
analysis', if you will - about what some projects are doing in an
attempt to be user friendly.

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