I reckon it's a good step forward for HP! Thanks for highlighting this Kam
Yung. I wonder if its out in the stores here yet.
And good for other linux noobs having trouble with their printer like myself ;
They have improved their printing support :
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html
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From: C David Rigby <[email protected]>
To: slugnet <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 9:51:04
Subject: Re: [Slugnet] ArsTechnica: Linux-based HP Mini Mi ships with command
line disabled
I would tend to agree with Maximilian Jackson on this. From the stand point of
the vendor & reseller, this is a low-margin item. Competition in the netbook
market is fierce. A big part of the projected cost of the product is probably
support. Preventing inexperienced users from touching the command line limits
their ability to modify the system. This should have the effect of reducing
support calls that are in the category "loose nut on the keyboard", as we
referred to it back in my days of end-user service and support. (8->
I also agree with you, Soh Kam Yung - this is another indicator of the growing
acceptance of GNU/Linux. In particular, it demonstrates vividly the power it
gives the vendor to do exactly what it wants with the software. FOSS began as
the most demanding software environment possible, accessible only to
specialists.Will it bring us to the point of ubiquitous, appliance-like
computing for the non-technical user faster than the proprietary systems? I
like to think so.
As a plus, If you're comfortable at the command line and you like the hardware,
you can probably run anything on it that you want. It's a win-win proposition.
CDR
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Maximilian Jackson
<[email protected]> wrote:
hmmm, maybe their target market is for noobs to the linux world or even for the
computing world for that fact.
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From: Soh Kam Yung <[email protected]>
To: slugnet <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 9:19:39
Subject: [Slugnet] ArsTechnica: Linux-based HP Mini Mi ships with command line
disabled
[http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2009/01/08/hp-introduces-command-line-free-linux-netbook]
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Linux-based HP Mini Mi ships with command line disabled
By Erica Sadun | Published: January 08, 2009 - 03:47PM CT
Yesterday, while looking through the Comdex news feeds, I stumbled
across a Mini Mi 1000 HP product announcement from HP. The Mini Mi
retails from just $329.99 and ships with Mobile Internet, a
"user-friendly, all-inclusive interface built on Linux". What caught
my eye on the product page wasn't the description of the GUI, it was
what followed on the next line. Preceded by "Please note" in bold, the
HP page states "the Linux command line interface is disabled on this
edition."
[...]
I write from a very particular viewpoint: I am, at least as far as
Linux is concerned, almost exclusively a command-line user. For me,
the notion that there could be a Linux distribution without
command-line access sounded strangely like Heresy. And yet, could
there be a greater vote of confidence in the consumer power of Linux
distributions than HP's decision to move forward with this version of
Mobile Internet?
[...]
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