and matt... go back and reread what my original thought was.. if someone produced/supported this kind os 'system' which consisted of the tested apps in a bundle.. my gut tells me that there's a market... if you have the systems/services that i mentioned, and others.. i'm sure there are people who'd pay... essentially you'd streamline the process of putting together a development environment for development teams... my $0.02 worth.. -bruce -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Matthew Miller Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 1:55 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: OT: What's the deal with Ubuntu? On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 01:53:51PM -0700, bruce wrote: > where can you go to get a complete/downloadable system.. (not a bunch of > apps) that you can setup for a webserver, or for an ldap server.. that's > essentially ready to go.. i envision something that you install, reboot, and > it's ready to run... not just that the underlying apps are installed... Oh, I see. You want a systems integrator. I bet quite a few people on this list do that. Hey, pay me enough and *I* will. :) > as you know, there's often more that has to be done to get an app to > run/be useful than just installing... The problem is that by definition, every case has different needs. Otherwise, it *would* be a matter of just installing. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 79 degrees Fahrenheit. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list