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- Questions we need to have quick answers to, on displayed Q&A placards:
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- -- 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?
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