Linux-vs-Windows (was Re: Augury and reading ...)

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On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 04:51:11PM -0400, John Esak, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> 
> I just looked at the SuSE page for their new desktop client. Picture of the
> box and everything. It clearly states on the page (several times) that NO
> other software is needed... nothing else required... etc., etc. Doesn't this
> seem a little disingenuous if everyone knows you need something else to run
> any mainstream apps that you might have?  Where does one get WinE and would
> it be an easy install on any Linux, etc. Biggest question of all, why
> wouldn't SuSE write whatever WinE is and include it in their "so complete"
> dsktop???  To me it is almost the old car salesman thing of "Oh, you want
> wheels with that???"  :-)

Fire up yast and go to add software, hit search, enter wine, select it, and
install.  SuSE distributes it.  It may or may not install by default.
Being someone who never -ever- does a default installation of anything, I
couldn't say.  When I installed SuSE, I didn't even install X11 at first.
I installed it later, along with WindoMaker.  I skipped all the KDE and
GNOME stuff, although I have libs for both for apps that need them.  But I
skipped the majority of both environments to conserve disk space.

And what does it say no other software is needed for?  :)  Could mean
installation.  Probably does.  (ie., You don't -need- a preexisting OS to
install it.)  i'm guessing that's what their claim implies.

mark->
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