2007/3/14, hymno3 <crazymulgogi@xxxxxxxxx>:
Indeed, tiresome to see all the fanboys trying to impose what they feel is "the best thing" as the standard for the yet-to-see Dell preloaded Linux distro.
It is rather disheartening. Linux distributions are (mostly) cooperating with each other, but some of the users are definitely doing each other more harm than taking away from Microsoft.
Sure, Fedora had and continues to have (minor) bugs, just like any distro, but I can't help thinking that much of the anti-Fedora prejudice is pure hearsay. Have the Fedora-bashers ever used it?
Most of them, probably not. There's the fantasyland of Red Hat being the next Microsoft (this dates back to even before RHEL's launch).
In the end, to a lot of people it doesn't matter what Dell preloads because they will install their own favourite distribution instead. Yet much is, theoretically, at stake here. If people, especially those new to Linux, try it out and buy such a Dell machine, and they like what they see, they won't uninstall it. Anyway, we all know it will be either Suse or Ubuntu, unless Red Hat is going to subsidise Dell a little, which I don't think is their business model. (?) If Dell preloads Ubuntu, it will be blob time soon. What has the Linux/FOSS world gained then?
I commented on the blog, advocating that making Linux drivers available is more important than what distribution is shipped by default. Considering Dell just switched their supported Linux configuration to SLES/D, I do agree with you that they'd probably go with either SuSE or Ubuntu .. hopefully, if it's the former it's openSUSE (no silly Microsoft extortion money), and if it's the latter, we'll still get free drivers. Dell's computers can normally be configured to use components with free drivers (e.g. for wireless, you can choose between Dell Wireless and Intel 3945 -- the latter is *almost* free; for graphics you can choose b/w Intel and nVidia), so the only two things we need is 1) Linux certification: the hardware works without non-FOSS drivers 2) BIOS updates, etc. are released in a way that they can be applied without Windows onboard I made these points on the blog; please add anything else you could think of. -- Michel Salim http://hircus.wordpress.com/ -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
