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The State of Laptop Linux In 2005

Posted by Zonk on from the penguins-in-your-lap dept.

jg21 writes "LinuxWorld's senior editor James Turner reports this month on what he calls The State of Laptop Linux in 2005 and says it's a lot better than it was in 2004, but adds - after conducting his own new test to see if any Linux distro is yet really laptop-ready: "What's needed to make things better? Well, the Linux community needs to address the device driver crisis." Turner acknowledges that binary-only drivers are a sore spot with free software purists, but says he'd "rather have a fully functional, if closed, Nvidia driver than a reverse-engineered one that limps along." Overall though he concludes that widespread laptop Linux is much closer now."

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  1. the free pass (off-topic) by Lil-Bondy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i can see that the free pass is making people write up longer replies before-hand and posting them as soon as they can... making the first few posts fairly big compared to normal - go ahead rate it offtopic, i dont care, im just posting it to show my opinion

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    1. Re:the free pass (off-topic) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      you have to deal with the following types of paid trolls (as far as I can tell)
      1. Those who always try to divert the attention to whatever distro of Linux that they are working on.
      2. Those who try to stear every single /. post to be about how wonderful MAC is
      3. Those who are hateful aholes who must own uS stock and spread FUD
      After them you can maybe find some real people talking about real things. That is why I only post anon now, because it is obvious that a lot of what is here is just product marketing content spam.

      and to all of you industry trolls: Every time you plug your crap here we all hate your crap even more because you are jamming our lines of communication.