Les Mikesell wrote:
Srikanth Konjarla wrote:
Interesting subject as always. To me, yes Linux beats XP/Vista etc.
Last time i have run windowZe for business was NT4 (i go to customers)
since then i have started running Linux on laptop (started with RH7.0,
no dual boot either).
But, for many out there it may not beat XP because there is no vendor
stands behind "Linux" to support. Also, Linux has become very general
term and i guess these days we gotta be specific about a Linux
distribution (F7, Ubuntu, SuSE etc). If there is a vendor who is ready
to pre install Linux (any distro) and extend it to full supportability
while providing all the drivers (video, wireless specifically) then it
can beat any OS (in my opinion OS X also).
The question, who is gonna do that.
Maybe these are US-only links, but they are to PCs with RedHat and
Ubuntu factory installed.
http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/precn_n?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&redirect=1
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
Sun,IBM,HP also shipping RH,SUSE based Linux servers for quite a while.
But, on the desktop side of the Linux, there is no vendor who can
"extend" a supportable Linux. I have looked at Dell's initiative with
Ubuntu Linux but i guess a user would have to contact Ubuntu forums for
any kind of support. Also, Dell is not known to contributing any code
that might augment the functionality of Linux or works better on their
hardware with complete support of hardware. But, i guess it is a good
start from Dell.
Most of the hardware vendors have a mailing list that is specific to
Linux but when it comes to actual support they contribute nothing
(specially Toshiba). This need to change for a big push into
desktop/laptop market.
Srikanth
But, installing your own is trivial if the hardware is recognized by the
installer.
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