-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sandip Bhattacharya on Sunday 25 Sep 2005 14:28 wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 Sep 2005 07:21, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > >> They're doing the right thing. >> Since it's difficult to cover every users who use GNU/Linux on laptops >> because most would have their own distinguished choice, it's better to >> ship a bare bone OS to lower the price and leave it up to the user to >> choose whatever s/he wants. > > > When they are shipping a default stuff anyway, what stops them from > installing a fully functioning Free linux distro? We have plently of such > options - Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu. The cost should remain the same, and > this is precisely been done by other laptop/desktop vendors who are > shipping with Linux. > As I mentioned in my earlier post, there's no "Single Point Of Contact" in any of the community driven distributions. Supporting a fully functional Linux distribution would include much more rigorous testing which finally would delay the product. And given the rate with which Linux is developed, it is a tedious task. No vendor is still giving full support for GNU/Linux in the Desktop/Laptop market. My Compaq laptop came shipped with Mandrake 9.X which was already an outdated distribution. There were a couple of multimedia keys and none of them were functioning. So is Compaq evil because even though they shipped a Fully Functioning Linux Distribution they had no drivers included for the Modem, Multimedia Keys, WiFi Card et cetera ? rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "Necessity is the mother of invention." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDNp414Rhi6gTxMLwRAjz3AJ46LcjpQEq6aG8MYKxqATwUebM7jwCff5ai U9orWFiNByfJJ1yECfL/amw= =lalA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ Event: Freedel 2005, 17th & 18th September, 2005 - http://freedel.in
