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Re: Experience the New Windows

To: Linux India General <linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Experience the New Windows
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 04:15:42 -0800
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0102211712180.1125-100000@thinkpad.exocore.com>; from achitnis@exocore.com on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:33:08PM +0530
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Reply-to: Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>

*[Atul Chitnis on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:33:08PM +0530]:

>But Linux does not currently have anything that would entice a non-techie
>Windows XP user at home. This is something that badly needs addressing,
>and *not* through _advocacy_.

An ongoing project (at least, it was being discussed when I left hyud) at ILUG-HYD is an installshield type prog for linux (which will manage deb, tarballs, rpms etc).  Feasible, and would address a major beef with linux (software is tough to install)

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