Here, here! Pressure on the supply chain has been good for linux -- even the linuxbios project, which started down at Los Alamos (a visiting EUGLUG speaker represented that as well as their clusterings a few+ years back)... by the same token, though, I also enjoy seeing traces of the push from the bottom, so to speak, where the engineers building devices/components are using many free tools, if nothing more than to test their products -- that, plus a strong (albeit small and growing) DIY crowd, urged toward popularity by MAKE and the like, are helping the bottom meet the top... these almost diametrically-opposed forces meet in so many creative ways. Yeah, "you can run linux on it" now, but what's even cooler is that linux (and bsd, open source, anon) does so many useful things!
ben On 2/26/07, Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
silver wrote: [cut] > However if PC vendors have the courage and do decide take the plunge then > the question is, which Linux distros/builds and hardware models (and device > drivers) should the various PC vendors support/certify? I'm not sure how the > "certification" process works now, or what different levels of certification > are now or should be available, but I suspect certification is not a cheap > undertaking/proposition. Maybe it is something which only larger enterprises > can afford or be willing to pay for? Or is there a level of certification > that can be afforded to end-consumers and small-businesses too? The most sensible way for Dell to approach this is the require certification from their component vendors. Doing the certs themselves would be too expensive. It would also leave them exposed when their vendors made changes to their product, something companies do all the time to save money. But if the vendor is responsible for certs, then they have to recertify when they make a revision. All of this will be excellent for us since it means more vendors will feel pressure to be Linux compatible and certify that they are. -- Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. --- Sir Winston Churchill _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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