__/ [ Bob Hauck ] on Thursday 28 December 2006 19:16 \__
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:20:44 -0500, flatfish+++ <flatfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Translation: If you google it, you will discover legions of people are
>> having / have had and will have problems with wireless and Linux. You
>> might just discover what a kludge, depending upon chipset, wireless is
>> under Linux.
>
> It is only a kludge because many manufacturers do not bother to support
> Linux properly. They have various bogus reasons for this that we know
> they are bogus since there is decent support for the Intel chips. It is
> not a problem with the design or implementation of Linux, only with the
> vendors.
>
> So, if you have a choice, use Intel. If not, many other chips can be
> made to work with some effort. If the anyone wants help with that, they
> should ask in the appropriate fora.
The other option is to just get Linux preinstalled (for cheap). Of course, in
reality, this might be difficult.
Microsoft 'killed Dell Linux' - States
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| The States' remedy hearing opened in DC yesterday, and States attorney
| Steven Kuney produced a devastating memo from Kempin, then in charge of
| Microsoft's OEM business, written after Judge Jackson had ordered his
| break-up of the company. Kempin raises the possibility of threatening
| Dell and other PC builders which promote Linux.
|
| "I'm thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux.
| ... they should do a delicate dance," Kempin wrote to Ballmer, in what is
| sure to be a memorable addition to the phrases ("knife the baby", "cut off
| the air supply") with which Microsoft enriched the English language in the
| first trial. Unlike those two, this is not contested.
|
| [...]
|
| Earlier memos described that it was "untenable" that a key Microsoft
| partner was promoting Linux. Kuney revealed that Dell disbanded its Linux
| business unit in early 2001. Dell quietly pulled Linux from its desktop PCs
| in the summer of 2001, IDG's Ashlee Vance discovered subsequently, six
| months after we heard Michael Dell declare his love of Linux on the desktop
| the previous winter.
|
| Compaq was also mentioned in other memos, with Microsoft taking the line
| that OEMs should "meet demand but not help create demand" for Linux.
`----
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/19/microsoft_killed_dell_linux_states/
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