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Shuttle XPC Linux Network Appliance

Posted by michael on from the little-black-noisy dept.

NoPants writes "Another big name looks like it's going to shack up with Linux. Shuttle, the maker of those small little cube looking PCs, is adopting Mandrake Linux with their newest network appliance XPCs. You can check out a review of the machine at Sudhian."

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  1. I is impressed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Linux is good. I want small portable linux system instead of laptop. Laptop is heavy too heavy for I. Laptop harddrive access is slow. Big PC has too many fan and is loud.

  2. Whoop-de-doo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    A PC comes with a copy of Linux.

    Stop the presses!

    Is it still a big deal when a computer maker spares you the download?

  3. Re:Speeding up....... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    delete what? you have to install it first idiot, and if you look on the forums from that site you will see that nobody uses it.

  4. Re:HOW DOES ONE BUGGER? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Remember what you're dad did to you when you were a kid? The thing that he said was yours and his little secret from mom, well that is what's known as buggery.

    HTH
    GoatHerd

  5. crack smokers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't know what kind of crack some of you are smoking about having to reboot continuously with Windows XP. I use both Linux and Windows and I rarely have to reboot either. Anyone who says otherwise is just spouting fud.

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  7. Who cares about installation simplicity... by steve.m · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The review includes a mouseclick-for-click comparison of installing XP vs Mandrake. Big deal - you may spend an hour or two installing chipset/graphics/other drivers and rebooting under windows. The real test is how long common operations take to complete.

    For example, how long does it take to share out a directory of MP3's on linux so another machine on your network can access it?

    Under windows it's a few mouse clicks and about 1 minute's work.
    In Linux it's 'vi /etc/smb.conf' and read the samba HOWTO
    Sharing a printer on the LAN is a similar task

    How about cutting a CD - most burners ship with some sort of burning software for Windows (e.g. Nero 5). Under Linux say hello to 'mkisofs', 'cdrecord' and another HOWTO. If you want to burn an audio CD of MP3's, you're in a world of pain.

    How about setting up Internet connection sharing and firewalling. Once again, Linux requires a black-belt in 'vi' and a HOWTO on IP Masquerading. In XP it's a job for your mouse.

    Until those kinds of tasks can be acomplished with a polished GUI, the average windows user will stick with windows.