Hi, On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 12:04 +0000, Tony Travis wrote:
> I've got a HP Pavillion dv5000 with a "Designed for Windows XP" sticker > on it - To me, it makes more sense to devote time and effort to making > sure Ubuntu runs on main-stream commodity PC's 'designed' to run Windows > than asking people to limit their purchases to PC's 'designed' to run > Linux. By and large Ubuntu does run on 'commodity' PC's, most of which > are supplied with Windows drivers for WiFi suitable for use with NDIS. > > Manufacturers respond to competition and, like it or not, Ubuntu on the > desktop is still a very small niche market. If large manufacturers like > Dell and HP start to perceive Linux support on their products as a good > competitive advantage then they will provide it, as they are now doing. > I personally think that complaining about lack of support for Linux from > manufacturers who don't see a Linux market for their products is futile. This may happen sooner than expected, with respect to HP: here's an interview with HP's Randy Hergett, Director of Engineering (http://www.oetrends.com/index.php?view=article&id=955% 3Ahp-randy-hergett-shares-hps-open-source-priorities-vision&Itemid=1&option=com_content). He has some interesting comments on desktop. Dougie Richardson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
