Run something like Gimp on a Linux server and then have various clients
(Linux, Win95, MacOS, whatever) connected running their own X server/client
interacting with Gimp on the server. All the talk about thin clients and
application servers, Linux has already done it.
What, if any, do you think our chances would be of having someone from
Corel show up and demo a Linux server version of Word Perfect? I don't
even know if there's a Corel sales rep in town, but we could suggest it to
Corel as a perfect marketing opportunity, and it would sure lend a lot of
credibility to our rave reviews of Linux. If this interests anybody I
could look into it.
We could also run some emulators... Nothing like running a Win95 or MacOS
app on Linux to get someone's attention.
Just some thoughts.
- Ben
At 06:55 PM 04/08/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Andrew Daviel <advax@triumf.ca> pondered:
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>>I just wondered what kind of stuff would impress a typical W95 user.
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>Probably stuff like
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> - Linux apps boasting file-compatibility with MS Office. ;^)
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> - KDE, admin Control Panels, reassuring air of GUI-ness.
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> - Dual booting of Win9x/NT and Linux.
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> - Snappily-responding high-res display, elegant fonts, general
> aura of window-manager prettiness.
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> - A complete S.u.S.E install. ("You get more!")
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> - An elaborately animated game running at "screaming" speed.
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>>One press clipping about Mac I saw thought that running 6 movies
>>simultaneously was impressive ...
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>Well, maybe it is impressive: almost anyone can grasp the implications
>immediately, provided both picture quality and frame rate are
>impressively high.
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>People are typically most readily impressed (and tempted!) by a better
>version of what they already know, even if later on, having succumbed
>to it, they discover it's rather more different and a much greater
>improvement than they thought.
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>Performing feats of server-hammering and other industrial-grade
>activities may tend to sow fear and panic among the untutored heathens.
>Demonstrate a stable, fast, reasonably-priced workstation, on the other
>hand, and the poor, huddled, masses who've been longing for such a
>thing will be impressed and quite possibly tempted.
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>"Don't think of it as a unix, think of it as NT++." Oops, really bad
>slogan! But to lure the typical Win95 user into taking Linux for a spin
>one could do a lot worse.
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>Bruce
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