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Re: [News] Dell Linux Misconceptions - Ordinary Users Do Request Linux

  • Subject: Re: [News] Dell Linux Misconceptions - Ordinary Users Do Request Linux
  • From: AB <fardblossom@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:28:43 -0600
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Sometimes
  • References: <1330669.SxhPYaSSY4@schestowitz.com> <567b2mF276nquU2@mid.individual.net>
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  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:506375
On 2007-03-19, B Gruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> On Monday 19 March 2007 11:21 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Dell, Linux... and Mark Shuttleworth
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | It turned out that the "community" wanted PCs installed with GNU/Linux.
>> | As of today, 113,556 individuals have said Dell should offer the top
>> | three distributions out of the showroom; another 78,300 want
>> | OpenOffice.org installed as an alternative to Microsoft Works or
>> | Microsoft Office. They've all registered and logged in to make these
>> | demands - so they have expended some time on it.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | The crowd who want GNU/Linux out of the showroom are the ones who are
>> | getting their feet wet for the first time. The ones who don't know how
>> | to use the MadWifi drivers or ndiswrapper to set up a wireless card.
>> | The ones who can't figure out how to get the nVidia drivers to work
>> | properly. They are far from fussy - if every device on that new box
>> | works with the GNU/Linux supplied by a vendor, they will just go
>> | home and start using it happily. Is it then so difficult for a
>> | vendor like Dell to offer GNU/Linux (any distribution) on a line of PCs?
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/10569/1090/
>> 
>> Many onservers assume that those who request Linux systems are those
>> already capable of installing Linux on anything.
>
> In fact Roy, many assume that it is people like us, cheering from the
> sidelines and "voting" 100 times each, and that not a single one of us will
> ever buy a single machine with Linux installed or "installable":-)

That's *their* problem. I just bought a machine with linux on it. Not
even a version I wanted, but it had one on it just the same. I knew
everything would work perfectly once I slicked Linspire. And it does.

I'm tired of building them. I've done that several times. Then I bought
a cheapo pre-built as an interim. Now I have another pre-built and I'm
lovin' it. The next will surely be one already put together, too. If
Dell or HP (Gateway can go ahead and bow out) want to make sure it's
not one of theirs, so be it.

-- 
The reason I view security as a binary value is that if your level of
security can change, without the the code changing (ie, someone discoevers
a hole), then the code was never secure in the first place.
  -- Erik Funkenbusch  Message-ID: <181oxog41hplq.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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