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Skriven 2010-01-28 10:15:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JOHN GUILLORY
Ärende: Re: TOM's Annual Linux Te
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-=> JOHN GUILLORY wrote to TOM WALKER <=-

To add a bit of critical review one simply needs to decide from go
they want a *hardware* based machine and not one with Windows driven
software card:, sound, modem, required Windows driver for inexpensive printers.

My luck has been with Older Gateways and IBM's 
as they tend to be standards compliant hardware and chipsets.

I've no experience with Lenovo, Acer or E-machines.

Not so much as a hiccup installing in either.

Now with these still fine for Linux boxes disappearing my only real
option is to build my own from a selected motherboard.

There is a link at www.linux.org to various peripherals and 
hardware known to work with Linux out of the box.

Just my 2 cents.

 TW> AA>With every newer release of Ubuntu you can be certain that fewer and fe
 TW> AA>older (meaning, underpowered, and equipped with obsolete parts) pcs wil
 TW> AA>supported.  My understanding is that you are still using older computer
 TW> AA>so, your annual exercise can render unfair conclusions about Ubuntu.
 TW>
 TW> That jsut proves my Point agian. They are NOT ready IF one needs to buy
 TW> a New computer of Criticaly pick the Hardware to be compatable.
 TW>  Teh Real Marked has a WIDE variety of Hardware. Either Suport it or
 TW>  remain only a small Nitch Market.
 JG>      Exactly, Linux folks like to brag that linux will run on an old
 JG> 80386
 JG>      no matter how slow and how little memory, and they like to brag
 JG> about
 JG>      all the things you can do with linux, yet they often fail to
 JG> mention
 JG>      that doing the things they mention often requires newer hardware,
 JG> and
 JG>      finding a version of Linux that'll run on older equipment is often
 JG>      a task in its self....  Heck, the one thing I ask of Linux is the
 JG> easiest
 JG>      and simpliest, yet seems to be the most demanding.... I like to
 JG> program,
 JG>      and have a couple of compilers that are available for Linux.  Hot
 JG> Basic
 JG>      and Pure Basic.... I've tried to get it to work on nearly every
 JG> version
 JG>      out there.  They all require you to download libraries out the
 JG> rear end,
 JG>      you do that, and for some reason it still won't run.... I find
 JG> with
 JG>      Linux, you get a couple of guys who deem what a distribution
 JG> should look
 JG>      like, they pre-load it with all their favorite software and make a
 JG>      installer or live-cd....  You can remove some of the stuff, but to

 JG>      Just start downloading software and installing your own, it gets
 JG> hairy!
 JG>      Then the guys making the distributions get cocky when you ask them
 JG> to
 JG>      include something .... "Nobody wants to use that program...."
 JG> Well,
 JG>      since someone ASKED YOU TO INCLUDE IT, I'd EXPECT THEY DID!  The
 JG> guy
 JG>      on easypeasy insist pretty much the only use anyone has for a
 JG> netbook
 JG>      is web and games, so he refuses to include any programming
 JG> utilities
 JG>      in his distribution, despite the hundreds of people asking for it
 JG> in his
 JG>      forum....  Similiar request on other programs, basically if he
 JG> doesn't
 JG>      like it, it won't get added no matter how many people ask... But
 JG> then
 JG>      again, I think the folks kinda showed him... They just stopped
 JG> using
 JG>       his distribution and found another one to be a fan of...

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