User Feedback :: DSL/Linux makes cents (sense)

Thanks to everyone who gave me encouragement and kept me on the right track while making my transition into this strange new world of Linux.

I recently did a custom dual boot Linux and their current OS for someone. Another Distro was more practical for them, but DSL worked as advertised for a demo. The most impressive things to them was their computer being ready to use in under a minute and a half from the live cd with all their hardware being detected and supported and how fast they could browse the web. They are dropping a thank you contribution in the mail. Total costs involved for them including contributions to DSL, the installed Distro, a few hardware upgrades and my fees works out to about the same as a single copy, and nothing else, of the proprietary OS that they would otherwise be forced to upgrade (or really downgrade) to.

It takes cents (sense) to make dollars.

DSL is a great demonstration distro but also proved, as I suspected it would, an excellent platform for learning what makes Linux tick. Where not everything happens automaticly, one is forced to learn the underlying fundamentals. This is something I find lacking in a lot of tech support that just follows a set of step-by-steps that anyone could find and actually knows little more then the user.

I am anxiously awaiting the re-release of DSL Core. I have a couple of things about ready for an Alpha release. They are designed to be cross platform but would work easiest and best with DSL. Just a couple more tweaks and the decision of which license to use. So DSL also works as a small, but stable and user friendly platform to build up from.

Thanks again,
Spark-o-matic

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an excellent platform for learning what makes Linux tick. Where not everything happens automaticly, one is forced to learn the underlying fundamentals..

I'd wager that dsl has done that for a lot of us, certainly for me. In fact, Robert used to talk about "dsl university" - such was the amount of learning that was going on here. And I'm constantly reminded how much more there is to learn.

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This is something I find lacking in a lot of tech support that just follows a set of step-by-steps that anyone could find and actually knows little more then the user

In the trade they're known as Windows monkeys. They can use a gui or work through steps that they're trained to use, but have little idea what's going on underneath.

I still do not know what is going on underneath the commands.I am a slow learner. There are some people (like me) that will be happy to be a Damn Small monkey instead of a windues monkey.

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In the trade they're known as Windows monkeys. They can use a gui or work through steps that they're trained to use, but have little idea what's going on underneath.

original here.