[AuckLUG] Dell Preinstalls Ubuntu

[David Hawke]

Ravi Chemudugunta wrote:
> I think dell taking up linux is really the worst thing that could
> happen to
> linux.  Dell is going to try it out and eventually end up dropping the
> distro because they can't support their users; If Dell dropped linux ...
> confidence in linux for server stuff may go...a possible nightmare
> scenario
>
Interesting comment on the Linux desktop environment - may point to some
of Dell's rationale. It's worth a read.

http://www.linspire.com/linspireletter


DavidH
> On 5/11/07, Bill Keesing <bill at help.geek.nz> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 10 May 2007 23:52:26 +1200, Justin Cook <justin at skull.co.nz>
>> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> It seems to be a hell of a lot better than it was. And with Linux
>> enjoying
>> more of as market penetration I suspect it will get better,
>> expecially with
>> M$ announcing their product.
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Anyone want to take part in a sweepstake on how long it is before people
>> start creating large amounts of malware for Silverfish due to the
>> inevitable
>> bad M$ programming errors.
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Hey, there is nothing wrong with carebears. They make great blaster and
>> railgun fodder :)
>>
>>
>>
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