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Questions we need to have quick answers to, on displayed Q&A placards:
-- What's different about Linux? Why yet another OS?
-- Isn't Win98 and WinNT the impending standard for everyone?
-- Why does open-source software matter to non-programmers?
-- What's it good for?
-- What's it not good for?
-- How good is hardware support? How beefy a machine is required?
Where do I get drivers?
-- How do I install it?
-- Will it run my existing applications? How do I read Word97 docs?
Where's Quicken?
(See CBB = Check Book Balancer at http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/cbb
and X-accountant at http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~rclark/xacc. Both read
Quicken files.)
-- If it's "free", how do I get support? Isn't is a problem that Linux
lacks a corporate backer?
-- How can it be any good if it's free of charge?
-- How can it be any good if there aren't as many applications? Why
aren't they on the shelves at Fry's?
-- How can it be any good if it's seldom mentioned in PC magazines?
-- How can it be any good if it doesn't do multi-threading?
(It _does_ do multithreading. This is a common bit of
Microsoft-originated FUD.)
-- How can it be any good if it's based on antique, user-hostile Unix?
(Isn't Unix obsolete?)
-- Do I have to get rid of Windoze to run it? How much space does it take?
-- Where do I get Linux? Where at the show?
-- Where do I get books on Linux? Which are recommended?