idea: a managed linux distribution, for weak users

[Jeffrey Watts]

Sorry, I meant that your mom would love it if _someone_ would administer her
computer for her at a reasonable rate.  Since you're not doing it for
her...  :-D

Jeffrey.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Jeffrey Watts
<jeffrey.w.watts at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>

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