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Shuttle XPC Linux Network Appliance
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."
This is where things start to pick up...
With a Linux distro bundled with hardware, buyers of said hardware do not need to go on their own initiative to download and install linux. It is right at their fingertips, bundled with their new barebone. They've just bought a Penguin Powered system, and chances are they will try linux out and not just delete it...... And then they will see the light.....
And this is where Linux on the Desktop really starts to expand......
Let it begin.
Defenestrate Windows...
I had always ranted to anyone who would listen about how many times one had to reboot Windows (in my case, win98) during/after installation. Oh I've found new hardware, let's reboot! Same song and dance for a network card, a USB mouse, the sound card, a video card, the webcam, etc. Then it's installing MS Office which requires at least another reboot, if not two.
My install of RH9 took a few minutes and one reboot -- after which I've got my devices working (yeah yeah, issues with Linux hardware support but if you're careful, everything is supported out of the "box"), have most of the software I need, and am pretty much ready to go. Then you install APT, run the update/upgrade, and maybe reboot again just for fun.
For a base install (without the extra tweaks), RH9 seems to be more convenient. In all cases, though, especially for updates, broadband comes in very handy.
They will look like this.
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"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
-- George Orwell
Maybe renaming and creating symbolic links to the new names may have fixed it? Just a random guess. Unfortunately it's too late now, eh?
Ask the poor guy to rename "Program Files" to "stuff_to_run" or something like that and see how XP handles it. Slippery slope, but c'mon, renaming folders is just about equivalent to renaming your drives in Linux. There are hooks tied to those names (LSB, maybe?) and when you suddenly switch to a name the machine doesn't expect, things go wrong. No different in Windows.
You're not counting the time required to install chipset drivers, updated video drivers, updated sound drivers, etc.
I'm surprised Mandrake lets normal users do this operation. If he did this as root, then he deserves breakage, only use root if you know what your doing, you'd breakage get on XP if you were to rename a windows system folder or file, or mess around blindly in the registry.
True genius is grasping a situation like a peice of fruit, and peircing it just right so that it drains dry.
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This may be a good company to support(with purchases). Thier left hand and right hand seem to be coordinated.
True genius is grasping a situation like a peice of fruit, and peircing it just right so that it drains dry.
heh, that's fine as long as you at least reboot after the chipset drivers, because it's always best to have those installed and working before installing other drivers.
It doesn't inconvenience them. Otherwise you've just got an annoyed Microsoft customer using Linux cdroms as coasters.
Might be good for people already familiar with Linux or who want to make the switch. But for a new user to convert its going to have to do something better then the current standard (which like it or not is Windows). Something that will actually positively effect their day to day use or give them some ragging rights. Like preinstalled MythTV.
Quack, quack.
The truth is that it _won't_ allow you to do this as a regular user. One would have to be root and even then you would have to rename the files with mv at the cli. I am calling bullshit on the original post.
There's one problem, your analogy is a little off kilter. Basically what he tried to do in Linux is the equivalent of changing the drive letter in Windows XP, not fiddling with a system file or the registry.
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Idealy, the system would recognize the change and update any old references to the path on-the-fly. Not necessarily easy, but it would sure help in cases like this.
When installing anything Windows tells me to reboot, I just end task the setup.exe and run the program, it still works, Windows is just stupid and looks bullshitting you. When you install new drivers you have to reboot, go into safe mode, remove the current driver, reboot, get some bullshit about no video drivers, install the new driver, then reboot AGAIN, you've just wasted a shitload of time you'd never had to have used waiting for your computer to reboot if you were running linux. Windows XP Professional is good, if you leave your computer on for 24/7 (like most people) after awhile your computer starts to lag badly and you need to reboot, OR just deal with a painfully slow OS for about half an hour, then it starts to go normal speed again, I never know why, but its Professional so I take its word for it ;) ;) *nudge* *nudge*
Have you metaroderated recently?