> Le dim 28/09/2003 à 19:44, Keld Jørn Simonsen a écrit : > > One thing I saw which could enhance the availablilty of Mandrake was to > > make an alliance with a major disk vendor, eg. Maxtor, to preinstalle > > mandrake on a number of disks - free of charge. I think this is what > > Lindows have done with Seagate for their 40 GB disks, and I see quite > > some potential for that kind of arrangement. > > This is stupid ... > You don't know where the disk will be installed, and so if you don't > support well the hardware you will just panic ... Bad reputation for > linux.
hm, where will you panic with a i586 kernel in todays world? i really don't think it'll be a problem. but a really good & user freindly hardware detection will be needed (see the OT: impressed by SuSE) > This kind of alliance should be made with computers suppliers ( HP, > Dell, IBM, Acer, Shuttle ) or with supermaket. The support is well > defined and tested and so you don't have problem and you can have > support. i would say, mandrake should go both for disk & PC manufactures, not only for the second. svetljo -- NEU FÜR ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - für Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum, File Sharing, MMS, Multimedia-Gruß, GMX FotoService Jetzt kostenlos anmelden unter http://www.gmx.net +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++
