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noob:
What about some of us on here building and selling Linux or BSD based systems for Windows users. Have a full set of office and home software and some custom "wizards" (name them differently) for networking and setting up network drives and such.

worker201:
This thread probably belongs in the Ideas forum...

Selling hardware is a loss-leading business, and wouldn't be worth the time and trouble.  Anybody who has that kind of capital is probably using it for something already.

However, a Microsuck Linux distro might be something to think about.  Assuming that none of the current distros was acceptable for transiting users.  I'd hate to put out a Linux distro that was mostly indistinguishable from any other.  But if we could collectively come up with something new or intriguing, I would offer any services/resources I have to the project.

noob:
I am using Project Looking Glass now and it is just great. More RAM maybe cause it's a bit jumpy.

Aloone_Jonez:
Perhapps a very easy to use distro that'll run on older hardware, like a p400 with 128MB RAM. Something that will help people who have an old version of Windows and don't want to upgrade their hardware to run XP, Linux or spend ages learning a new system.

worker201:
Hmmm, Linux98.  Getting together a nice functional Linux system that runs on an older box is not a problem.  Making it as user friendly as that might require a lot of work.  I mean, explaining the concept of /bin to many people is challenging.  Switching to Linux does require you to learn a "new system".

If we wanted to do something like this, we would need to come to some sort of consensus as to what works and what doesn't, what needs to be improved on, and how much our distro would reasonably demand from the user.

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