-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Saturday 24 Sep 2005 11:39 wrote:
> I do'nt remember which is the exact model, but I had to give a blast to > the sales person from one of these Acer shops who came to my office for a > demo. I was shocked to see that the said Linux based Acer laptop came with > Linux installed but just the "Command Line Interface", enough to scare > away potential newbie / someone willing to move over to Linux. I tend to > think that it is an institutional prompting by Acer to buy cheaper laptops > and have the customer do the piracy part without putting itself to risk. Linux is still, a pain in the ass, to configure; especially in case of laptops. It's an open world. You want a laptop without Windows, you get it. Now you want it fully configured, do it yourself. If you can't, hire me. Even when you buy a notebook with Microsoft loaded, if there are issues with the OS, you are redirected to Microsoft for support. In case of linux whom do you expect ? There are just too many distros with no single major distro. Hope this helps most of you guys arguments about XXX company is bad because they shipped linux without configuring it. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "Necessity is the mother of invention." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDNdQJ4Rhi6gTxMLwRApsNAKCjVknorzl4wykdui2OSEVRoHb5dgCeLs30 l7P9i8wOGCZ6wyuLGW42Xyg= =nSVc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Event: Freedel 2005, 17th & 18th September, 2005 - http://freedel.in
