[luau] Aloha all / Hat 7.3 / Drake 8.2

[W. Wayne Liauh]

Here you go again, George.

You have all the time in the world, but I believe most of us can only 
afford to be interested in finding a business solution.  At the present 
time, I would say, stick with either Red Hat or Mandrake, or both, 
mainly because they have some of the best beta testing protocols, and at 
least the latter seems to be working quite OK (I am sure Red Hat will 
also work great, and no one should ignore the big brother of Linux).

Of course, there is always a desire to try new distros.  However, again, 
personally, I believe our time will be much better spent to build user 
experience/expertise around application software (preferably 
distro-neutral).  For example, besides Warren, I don't see anyone 
talking about WINE?

There are also a number of things that I would like to see some able 
bodies actually put their hands/minds on:

1.  File/printer sharing with Win2K/WinXP.
2.  Direct copying of music CDs.
3.  Voice recognition (looks someone is already working on this).
4.  Linux-based accounting packages (e.g., moneydance, gnucash, kapital, 
etc.)
5.  Any time-tracking programs for attorneys?
6.  Running Quicken under Win4Lin.
7.  Dosemu (there are still a number of DOS users, mainly medical 
transcribers who are using WPDOS almost exclusively).
8.  Debian has a Debian-for-doctors project, can we port that knowledge 
to rpm-based distros?  (Linux is moving into the financial/banking 
sectors, but I believe the healthcare industry will be the most 
promising market.)

Etc.

(On the "user community" thing, we have to learn that we should not 
expect to receive everything for free just because it is "Linux". We 
should not expect that there will always be people like Warren, Scott, 
and other gurus in this board who will do nothing but answering our 
questions for FREE. This will set a very bad example for potential Linux 
wannabes. We have to learn that sometimes, or most of time for Windows 
users, we need to pay to have our questions answered.  Mandrake has a 
MandrakeExpert, where you can pay to have your questions answered.)


Peace



wayne




Joe Linux wrote:

> But in the long run I don't think it's to wise to be myopic about the 
> various distributions.  We should test them as they come put and then 
> post our opinions about them to the group.