TLUG Talk June 8

[steven meyer]

Yes, I plan to discuss various 'appliances', although I won't go into
too many details on router/firewalls.

Steven

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 19:29, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 05:33:06PM -0400, steven meyer wrote
> > Yes, I will make this available on my web site.
> 
>   Does this include stuff like a router/firewall?
> 
>   Another "appliance" that would be usefull would be one with Mozilla
> (browser/email/news) plus OpenOffice+AbiWord+Gnumeric plus Xine.  This
> would cover just about everything a newbie could want.  It could be
> slapped onto a used computer that XP would crawl on.  Use TWM or some
> other lightweight window manager.
> 
>   I think that the "killer desktop" for linux would be something that
> makes use of computers that XP has problems with.  The really big
> opportunity will be MS Longhorn.  The TCO of Windows will include $1000+
> for a new computer.  That will hurt them.

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