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Finally A Major-Brand Desktop With Linux, Not Windows

Posted by timothy on from the ask-darl-first dept.

Fugwidzard writes "Sounds like an okay box from HP at an okay price, the NewsForge review says, but no modem, and even optional modems are Winmodems although they say they have Linux drivers for them. Plus it's not a true Linux preload - they give you a couple of Mandrake CDs and you're on your own, no support. Better than paying Microsoft tax, anyway, and a step in the right direction for HP. Supposedly they're going to have all their PCs 'Linux certified' in the near future. I hope other big PC mills do the same."

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  1. Two sides of the coin by rudabager · · Score: 0, Troll

    I would like to point out a few things. First I think the fact that the system is shipped w/o mandrake installed is good (for lack of better vocab) because it allows you to customize it as much as you want to. Whos to say that HP would know what kind of compliers and servers you want running on your pc. On the flip side why not just install all the services mandrake has to offer. And if there were to be another flip side it would be that mandrake is not really customizable so who cares just install the whole thing. I mean it is obvious that no one reading these posts would buy such a low end computer when they could build one for free. The people that are going to buy it are the same people that couldnt configure linux if their lives depended on it. Second mandrake is a French company (French moderators move on and read the next post) I had mandrake running on my system and I was too lazy to switch to debian eventhough it was my time in the Linux evolutionary order. After recent events I have not used mandrake in about a year and am running soley on debian.

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  2. Microsoft tax by MORTAR_COMBAT! · · Score: 0, Troll

    So basically this is getting a computer $100 cheaper... so you can install your pirated copy of XP for free.

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  3. A Modem? by greymond · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh come one - who the hell uses those still. Even the people out in the hills have some kind of highspeed access, DSL, DirectPC, or some other form of wirless like P2P (Point to Point). And the fact that these services are low in cost (around $40/mo for a 1.5mb connection) there isn;t any reason to keep including modems in systems. Especially if the systems are "name brand off the shelf for the popular crowd" - meaning most people.

    Then again I understand the linux community likes their systems old and unique and would rather spend money tweaking and shogunning their modems than spending half the amount on a newer and more productive piece of hardware.

    Don't mind me it's too early in the morning to make too much sense....

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