Promoting Linux before release of vista

[Paul Sutton]

I agree, but comments regarding intelligence are a bit harsh, and may go 
against us,.  what you need to do is demonstrate the differences between 
the two,  or rather push the phillosopy of Free software, rather than 
Linux (which after all is simply a kernel), 

We can push Openoffice to families who perhaps would not otherwise be 
able to afford MS Office, but feel obliged to spend money they would 
rather spend on more important things (e.g food, heating, etc), 
We can push Mozilla suite because it's free software, plus it's more secure,

If reboot canada or resource can help us, we can look in to providing 
computers with e-mail and web access to members of the community, 
perhaps isolated areas, where that community need to keep in touch with 
the out side world, or perhaps provide ways for people a long way from 
family to keep in touch cheaply,  is it worth spending money on windows 
when all that person is doing is sending an e-mail to friends, or 
browsing a few web sites.

Are we pushing Linux or open source?  Given the problems with outlook 
think what a difference simply switching to thunderbird would make and 
teaching people based web security / safety, from the outset. if we can 
reduce the spread of e-mail based viruses, it will save a lot of people, 
time, money and headache.

If Linux / OSS is Un-american than I am sure as Canadians, you can jump 
on that, and use that to your advantage, un-American is not unCanadian, 
surely we can come up with something, given your closer in relations to 
the Uk than you are to the US,  Canada Vs the US, or The commonwealth vs 
America,  Linux is popuar in India, (another commonweath country), 

Any ideas.
Paul

Amos H. Weatherill wrote:

>Hi, guys and gals.
>
>Walter, I'm afraid that you may be overestimating the intelligence of the
>average individual.  As someone who supports "average" users (currently
>on Windows but I hope, soon on Linux as well) I have to say that I am not
>encouraged by the intelligence level that I keep running into.
>
>I think that you should stick with your first statement about Linux and
>provide more information if it is asked for.
>
>A more telling statement from their perspective might be to say that using
>Linux would not require a hardware upgrade in most cases, unlike Vista,
>which is sure to require a memory upgrade as a minimum.
>
>Also we should mention that System level crashes are far less frequent
>with Linux.  (That's the dreaded "BSOD" to Windows users)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org]On Behalf Of Walter
>Dnes
>Sent: February 23, 2006 9:17 PM
>To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
>Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Promoting Linux before release of vista
>
>
>On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:55:52AM -0500, John Van Ostrand wrote
>
>  
>
>>Be careful. Some may interpret that as saying Linux is lightweight in
>>features. Use the word "bloated" and "vista" together in a sentence and
>>that might put both OSes in the correct light.
>>    
>>
>
>  Would this be understandable by the average person...
>
>  - linux is more efficient than Windows
>
>  - In Windows, many functions are *ALWAYS* loaded and using up
>    resources even if when you don't need them, because they're
>    integrated into the kernel
>
>  - linux is more modular.  You can customize it to your taste.
>
>  
>


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