On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 09:56:50AM -0700, Harvey Rothenberg spake thusly: > A six month experiment Dell is undertaking to design a notebook running open > source software aimed at developers (as reported on the net as of May 11, > 2012).
Why should we have any expectation that Microsoft isn't calling up Dell right now upon hearing about this project and threatening to end Dell's ability to competitively sell computers with Windows installed by jacking up the price? Overall this is great news. But we've been down this hopeful road with Dell at least a couple of times before. > Everything seems very fast and responsive, and YouTube video playback is > smooth. The Dell XPS 13 has a 13.3 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, Sandy > Bridge Did it come with flashplayer pre-installed? If so I would like to know how they pulled that off. Special agreement with Adobe for licensing? I recently had a client who had been windows-only in the office for years take an interest in trying out Linux in the form of Ubuntu. He had heard it was more user friendly these days and didn't have a lot of the issues Windows does etc. He got it installed all by himself and everything went well for the first 15 minutes of his playing with it. Then he tried to play a youtube video. It didn't work out of the box. Nor did Java. He decided Linux on the desktop was unusable and shelved the idea. One could rightly argue that there was no real business need to look at youtube videos and that it isn't Ubuntu's fault that Adobe has restrictive licensing and that this stuff comes preconfigured on Windows because someone else bothered to integrate all of the software, etc. Rightly or wrongly, none of that mattered to this small business owner who will continue to rely on his current Windows-based setup for the foreseeable future. -- Tracy Reed
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