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HP Will Offer Customized Linux in Notebooks
diegocgteleline.es writes "According with Tom's Hardware, HP is working with Ubuntu to offer a customized GNU/Linux version that works 100% - wireless, bluetooth, IrDA, IEEE1394 - with HP hardware. This offer will be restricted to Europe, Middle East and Africa. The CD includes free support through online resources as well as paid support through Canonical, the developer of Ubuntu."
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I'm US so it seems I wont be getting one of these, but this is a good step. Here's what I'm currently looking for in a laptop.
-3 hours of "normal" usage
-nvidia graphics
-amd64 proc
-dual layer dvd burner
and then the normal goodies (high speed proc, gig of ram, bluetooth, wifi, etc).
I havent seen any laptops that had the 4 primary things I'm looking for though. Sigh.
"I have great faith in fools: Self confidence my friends call it." ~Edgar Allan Poe
What a great way for a major company to thumb it's nose at the U.S. Linux developers that help make Linux available in the first place. Yes, I do understand that the distro they are using does not originate in the U.S., but it's still a slap in the face for developers who want to buy a decent laptop and not pay the Microsoft tax.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Think again, Eurotrash. Anyone is free to buy a laptop of any brand and install any flavor of HippieOS on it themselves. A couple of other points for you to suck on:
1) HP was created by an AMERICAN.
2) Enjoy your welfare state, onerous tax burden, and 9% unemployment.
liberalism (lbr--lzm, lbr-) n. - The fear that someone somewhere can help themself.
- Your a Real American from CANADA go see your DOJ and say that your where coerced into buying a product you did not whant to buy and that from the company named HP , and ask that they intervene in the name of ALL American.
Unlike the Etats-Unians DOJ , The American DOJ whas created by the people , is controlled by the people and defend all the people. Its your inaction and your failure to report that situation to the proper authority that are leaving others to
feel the same result you add.
C ourageous
A mericans
N oble
A mericans
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where not "of America" , we discovered the place and named it , because we are the REAL American.
I feel sad that I need to explain this picture.
Look closer to it. Now look again a bit closer to it.. No.. that's close
enough..
This screenshot explains a lot to us. We don't care for the Toolbar structure
nor do we care for the Menu structure. We only look at the appearance.
We see Toolbars with ICONS only, we see Toolbars with TEXT beneath the ICONS,
we see Toolbars with mixed entries as ICONS and TEXT, we see Toolbars which
have a drag handle, we see Menu with drag handle, we see Toolbars without drag
handle we see Menu without drag handle.
Now what does us tell this ? It tells us that there is something wrong if we
ask the question "why is this the case?". We need to ask ourselves what the aim
of a desktop environment and developer plattform is? The aim is to provide a
set of bottom libraries (called a framework) for the developers, so they are
able to create applications that feel coherent. Looking the same, working the
same, behaving the same as in a real environment. Do you want to have your
kitchen filled up with different furniture or your living room ? One seat from
type Y the other from type Q the other from Z. They simply do look disharmonic.
This all with the GNOME HIG in mind and knowing the facts that GNOME wants to
be a desktop environment as well as a development plattform.
Now we need to look a bit closer to it and we figure out that GNOME offers for
historic reasons different ways to create Windows. Now imagine this, you are a
user and you want for some reason ICONS only on your Toolbar or you want no
images in the Menu. You go into the preferences section and select 'icons only'
for Toolbars and 'no images' for Menus. After that you realize that 3/4 of the
mostly GNOME centric applications are not behaving correctly.
Looking closer to the screenshot you also realize that the Toolbars are not
just behaving differently they also are in different sizes (height). I am not
saying that such things can't be found on other architectures but I find it
quite ridiculous and embarrassing naming GNOME together with MacOS X and even
say it's as clean and as aesthetical pleasing as MaxOS X while the above
screenshot clearly demonstrates that this is not the case.
I could easily go into deeper detail (e.g. jumping on the full architecture
itself) but I keep myself from wasting time here. All in all people should get
enough from the screenshot to understand that something ain't right there. If
the GNOME hackers would be that skilled then they wouldn't have caused such an
irritation as shown there. GNOME is a big construction lot as it is now due
it's really offending architecture.
Actually yes these things annoy a regular user and prevents him from getting
work done because he starts fiddling around with the desktop components to make
it look coherent. The first problem is, and I think you agree with me, is that
GNOME is a Desktop Environment and the purpose of a Desktop Environment is to
offer coherent, similar looking and working applications.
Now I as user see different types of Toolbars, I go into the GNOME Preferences
section and select ICONS only on my Toolbars and I feel irritated that half of
the apps don't behave on this rule. I am also irritated that I can drag off
some Toolbars and others not.
Now this won't stop me from working but this example is just a minor one from
the overall stuff found inside GNOME. I don't get my work done correctly inside
GNOME because of all these irritations found everywhere. For example I am able
to 'print this page' in GNUMERIC and ABIWORD but I am not able to 'print this
page' within GPDF or EVINCE not to speak that GGV doesn't offer me a printing
dialog to chose from. This is preventing me from getting my work done because I
have to stick back to console or gnome-terminal to print exactly the ONE page
tha