On 06/21/2012 08:34 AM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
On Wednesday 20 Jun 2012, Ashish SHUKLA wrote:
- gpg control packet
For the laptop users:
http://www.canonical.com/content/canonical-and-dell-announce-today-de
ll-laptops-pre-loaded-ubuntu-will-be-sold-850-retail-out
Excellent. Now if you need Linux on your laptop you don't need to pay
the Winduhs tax, and if you prefer some other distribution to Ubuntu you
can always reinstall and be sure that the hardware will work. Of
course, Ubuntu doesn't mind shipping proprietary drivers in base
distribution, so you may still need to do some R&D for other
distributions.
In this matter (proprietary or restricted drivers or codecs) the
LinuxMint people are slightly more liberal. I test installed LinuxMint
11 (I only this release on the USB at that time) on an ASUS F51 a few
days. The whole *installation process running off of a USB stick took
just 6 minutes* and everything, including the Bluetooth, WiFi, touchpad
scrolling and tapping, worked like a charm. I need not mention that most
of the useful and, or needed office applications, LibreOffice,
Thunderbird, Firefox, Gimp and Osmo etc. are included in these
Debian/Ubuntu or derivative distributions.
--
Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman
(http://werc.homelinux.net/contact/)
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