[AuckLUG] Dell Preinstalls Ubuntu

[Michael McCallum]

flash on linux is fine check out fp9...

On Thursday 10 May 2007 23:52, Justin Cook 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.
>
> 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.
> >
> >
> > http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7893344128.html
> >
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