-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sandip Bhattacharya on Saturday 24 Sep 2005 22:15 wrote:
> On Saturday, 24 Sep 2005 13:50, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote: > >> >> my cousin studying at IIT bought one on bank loan yesterday from acer >> mall in NP. it had some linpus linux, kernel boots & ur just dropped >> into a root shell, with two partitions hda1 (linux) hda2 (windows). >> & there was no linpus CD to go with it! >> > > > Hmm. In that case, they are right. The OS is of limited functionality. Of > course, the fact remains that they are giving the customer a crippled OS. > They're doing the right thing. Since it's difficult to cover every users who use GNU/Linux on laptops because most would have their own distinguished choice, it's better to ship a bare bone OS to lower the price and leave it up to the user to choose whatever s/he wants. 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) iD8DBQFDNgKS4Rhi6gTxMLwRAnCvAJ0aYW1tdAjvibjur/nI1QdMC+RlJACfa/Bt xp+Z310McwBhZ4JEJU7gqc0= =ProA -----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
