FW: [seul-edu] ISO Phase 3

["Darryl Palmer" <Darryl_Palmer_Jr@acm.org>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Darryl Palmer [mailto:Darryl_Palmer_Jr@acm.org] 
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 4:45 PM
To: 'Chris Puttick'
Subject: RE: [seul-edu] ISO Phase 3

Have we defined the users for this ISO yet?  Who do we imagine using it
and what skills will they possess with Linux and computers?  Likewise,
what administrative/political issues will they have to deal with, for
example, only consumer distributions?

Darryl


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Puttick [mailto:chris@centralmanclc.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 11:11 AM
> To: 'Darryl Palmer '; 'seul-edu@seul.org '
> Subject: RE: [seul-edu] ISO Phase 3
> 
> At risk of starting a distro war, you've only included one "consumer"
> level
> distro. Anyone who's going to use this ISO in schools is going to have
to
> use a "brand-name" distro to help make the case (at least in the UK).
I'd
> have thought the average Debian/Slackware user would have had no
problem
> locating and installing these apps (preferably compiled from source
(-: ).
> The target are newbies, and they are most likely to buy a distro from
> Amazon
> or their local computer store: Redhat, SuSE, Mandrake are the ones
seen
> here.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Chris