idea: a managed linux distribution, for weak users

[Jeffrey Watts]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Christofer C. Bell <
christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:

> David, no one is in the target demographic of this service.  People do
> not want their personal computers, their property, in their homes,
> managed by someone else.  Your mother does not need this service.  She
> does not need to pay money to someone to take over her computer,
> install Linux on it, and run her "comfy Windows" in a VM.  What your
> mother needs is *you* helping her.
>

Hate to undermine your argument, but your own mom would love it if you would
remotely administer her machine in this way, so I think that there is a
market, the question is "how big" and "how hard" (hrm, that sounds wrong).

David, the number one issue I see is dealing with the huge variety in
hardware configurations.  The second issue being how to deal with hardware
failures and network failures.  The bad news is that in both circumstances
you would have no control and no special access to deal with them.  In my
opinion that's a deal killer.

Jeffrey.

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oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that
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