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Dell’s bright idea
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This is good news for me.
I'm a Linux user and will pretty soon be looking to buy a laptop for my wife.
Linux is all she knows, so I want something that I know will work with it.
Good move, Dell. Major brownie points.
I'm a Linux user and will pretty soon be looking to buy a laptop for my wife.
Linux is all she knows, so I want something that I know will work with it.
Good move, Dell. Major brownie points.
not so fast guys..
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/28/0115255
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/28/0115255
Strictly hardcore dude, how do you handle it? (and where did you find her?!)
She's never really worked on a computer before she met me, so it was easy to teach her how to use Linux.
BTW, she says Windows irritate her. The other day the computer at her work(hair salon) updated WMP and the asked for a restart. Bloody hilarious.
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Pilgrim
Wugger
The problem that Dell faces is that there are so many lunix distros out there that they cannot safely say that a pc/laptop is lunix certified.
It could be that they test the leading 3 (or 10 or 100) lunix distros out there and say that for version x the hardware works.
But that is all.
With M$ at least there is only a new os out every decade or so, so it is safe to certify a set of hardware as M$ safe...
Just my 2c
If your laptop came with Ubunto installed but you love SUSE you still have to format and start over...
Now where does that leave the BeOS lovers?
I think Dell bit off a more than they can chew.
It could be that they test the leading 3 (or 10 or 100) lunix distros out there and say that for version x the hardware works.
But that is all.
With M$ at least there is only a new os out every decade or so, so it is safe to certify a set of hardware as M$ safe...
Just my 2c
If your laptop came with Ubunto installed but you love SUSE you still have to format and start over...
Now where does that leave the BeOS lovers?
I think Dell bit off a more than they can chew.
Battery
Active Member
Viva la revolution.
They will probably test a defined set by popularity of linux distros. SuSe, RedHat, Fedora, Ubuntu etc....
I'm sure you'll be able to get 'Beta' laptops or something. I'm also extremely sure some of the linux versions will have the same hardware support. Programmers program to fit the hardware. Well thats kind of how it is. Like the Alien-ware computer range, you can actually choose the software you want preinstalled and what version of windows etc. So I rate Dell could use them as an example and offer them lets say 25 different choices in hardware, OS and additional software.
Stop hating, It's a step in the right direction mate.
^^
They will probably test a defined set by popularity of linux distros. SuSe, RedHat, Fedora, Ubuntu etc....
I'm sure you'll be able to get 'Beta' laptops or something. I'm also extremely sure some of the linux versions will have the same hardware support. Programmers program to fit the hardware. Well thats kind of how it is. Like the Alien-ware computer range, you can actually choose the software you want preinstalled and what version of windows etc. So I rate Dell could use them as an example and offer them lets say 25 different choices in hardware, OS and additional software.
Stop hating, It's a step in the right direction mate.
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redarrow
Expert Member
Um, the amount of Linux distro's doesn't really have much to do with compatibility... Linux is open source - bottom line: if it works on one distro it'll work on another..
The Linux kernel (the part that is really Linux) is generally speaking where the drivers are.. if one group of programmers fix a bug or add a driver etc. it gets added back into the "official" Linux kernel.. meaning that it shortly appears on all the other distros...
So basically speaking to determine "Linux compatibility" you just need to make sure it works on the current "stable" kernel... then at the worst a user might have to update their kernel to get their hardware to work...
