[AuckLUG] Dell Preinstalls Ubuntu

[Justin Cook]

Critical tools like Adobe products aside, one of the major reasons I 
don't use a Linux desktop is the lack of proper support for things like 
Flash. Flash on linux is complete arse.

With that in mind, it sounds like better flash support on Linux is 
getting to be more "definitely" than "maybe" and Microsoft have commited 
to eventually delivering Silverlight on both Linux and Mac. Because of 
the jump by Silverlight to support the CLR on foreign platforms, we'll 
likely see C# support (outside of mono) as well which makes me very 
happy. Developers will definitely take advantage of that portability if 
it does come about.

It's a short hop from there for someone to develop XNA compatible 
libraries for linux, which is pretty much my ultimate ulterior motive. 
XNA is Microsoft's new carebear game libraries that sit above DirectX.

Things are indeed finally getting there!


Patrick Gildea wrote:
> I know that this is kind of old news but I wonders what other peoples 
> opinions of Dell deciding to preinstall Ubuntu on Dell computers. I 
> hope this will give linux a foot in the door at getting the average 
> joe to use linux. I just hope Dell actually promotes this product and 
> doesn't make it hard to find. And I hope consumers don't think of 
> linux as a cheap low end OS which it clearly is not.
>
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