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| Thread ID: 77114 | 2007-02-27 06:04:00 | Customers to Dell: Give Us Linux! | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 528537 | 2007-02-27 06:04:00 | LINK HERE (www.businessweek.com ndex+page_today's+top+stories) | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 528538 | 2007-02-27 07:00:00 | www.dell.com | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 528539 | 2007-02-27 18:57:00 | from the businessweek.com article: "Even high-profile Linux proponents admit the operating system isn't ready for mass-market use. ... But Linux has been too arcane to control, incompatible with popular hardware, and bereft of popular programs for most home PC users." |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 528540 | 2007-02-28 04:56:00 | Speaking of things Dell, this article from iT News Australia today. Dell on the decline www.itnews.com.au |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 528541 | 2007-02-28 04:58:00 | from the businessweek.com article: "Even high-profile Linux proponents admit the operating system isn't ready for mass-market use. ... But Linux has been too arcane to control, incompatible with popular hardware, and bereft of popular programs for most home PC users." Exaaactly. It's too manual for the everyday user as well. |
jermsie (6820) | ||
| 528542 | 2007-02-28 05:27:00 | I was very interested to see that Linux and OpenOffice carried so much favour with so many users on the site over and above any other suggestion to help get Dell out of its current dilemma regardless of whether or not Linux may actually be suited to the desktop of the average Dell PC buyer. I am a user of OpenOffice myself.:) |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 528543 | 2007-02-28 07:02:00 | from the businessweek.com article: "Even high-profile Linux proponents admit the operating system isn't ready for mass-market use. ... But Linux has been too arcane to control, incompatible with popular hardware, and bereft of popular programs for most home PC users." A little light, but there is a lot of tunnel left yet. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 528544 | 2007-03-01 11:57:00 | I was very interested to see that Linux and OpenOffice carried so much favour with so many users on the site over and above any other suggestion to help get Dell out of its current dilemma regardless of whether or not Linux may actually be suited to the desktop of the average Dell PC buyer. I am a user of OpenOffice myself.:) i tried ubuntu the other day on my spare pc, after 3 days of fiddling/reinstalling, i gave up on networking and got out my windows cd. it seemed fine for the average user, but i couldn't get networking nor internet to work for more than 3 seconds :/ if anyone want's some ubuntu cds just ask i did find open office to be good, and on the whole it wasn't that bad, but i don't think dell's response was a good representation of their customers, most of which don't even know what linux is lol perhaps if they made DECENT systems with STANDARD parts they wouldn't be in this mess |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 528545 | 2007-03-01 15:42:00 | i tried ubuntu the other day on my spare pc, after 3 days of fiddling/reinstalling, i gave up on networking and got out my windows cd . it seemed fine for the average user, but i couldn't get networking nor internet to work for more than 3 seconds :/ if anyone want's some ubuntu cds just ask i did find open office to be good, and on the whole it wasn't that bad, but i don't think dell's response was a good representation of their customers, most of which don't even know what linux is lol perhaps if they made DECENT systems with STANDARD parts they wouldn't be in this mess Don't ask me the technicals of it all, but I somehow got networking with both Ubuntu and Mepis running well on my local network . . . and that with another XP running it's own way too as the master on the network . What I am trying to do is get this rack system running as a server with either Mepis or Ubuntu, and able to talk to and hear from XP and my home theater system . I am working on it quite a lot lately . . . but this sure ain't C>64 Basic or FigForth either! I crashes a little, learnz a little and plodz ever onward . It's not impossible . . just like below my sig . . . . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 528546 | 2007-03-01 20:31:00 | Don't ask me the technicals of it all, but I somehow got networking with both Ubuntu and Mepis running well on my local network . . . and that with another XP running it's own way too as the master on the network . What I am trying to do is get this rack system running as a server with either Mepis or Ubuntu, and able to talk to and hear from XP and my home theater system . I am working on it quite a lot lately . . . but this sure ain't C>64 Basic or FigForth either! I crashes a little, learnz a little and plodz ever onward . It's not impossible . . just like below my sig . . . . lol, i was trying to do more-or-less the same thing, ubuntu fileserver on a windows network . i read all this crap about samba and how to install it, found out it was already installed but had no way to get it to actually run :( the whole thing DID work for about 3 seconds but that was it . |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
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