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Dell Opens Up About Desktop Linux
An anonymous reader writes "Michael Dell explains his company's Linux desktop strategy in an interview at DesktopLinux.com. He says that it's not practical for Dell (the company) to support numerous distributions due to their incompatibilities, but that he doesn't want alienate large segements of the Linux community by selecting a favorite Linux distro to standardize on (Ubuntu appears to be his favorite, at the moment, by the way.) What he'd really like to see, is for the popular Linux distros to converge on a common core platform, according to the article."
You're free to make your own distro that will take 80% market share any time you like! Ahh the beauty of Linux!
Why hasn't anyone thought of that before?
We could call it the Linux Standards Base or something like that.
You know you need to re-evaluate your coding-to-social life ratio when you start making jokes in code
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You have just confused the hell out of me.
First off, you're saying you don't live in a country where it's legal to download an mp3 decoder (without paying for it I'm assuming). Then you're listening to mp3's with Gentoo... so uhh, did you pay the patent royalties? Isn't that the problem?!
It wasn't obvious to you where the 'well-advertised' repository is. How in the hell did you install Gentoo without being able to look stuff up on teh internets?
But what confounds me most of all is that you found it easier to wipe Debian and install Gentoo. Good God man, you go from a 5 minute maximum process to a process that takes hours, and possibly days?!?! Ahhhhhh
I've got a link that will save you some time.
They call me the wookie man, I guess that's what I am
Which of the versions of Vista is Mr. Dell going to choose ?
the comment about converging on a common distro seems kinda funny comin' from a guy who built his business by never selling two like motherboards.
I guess to be fair Dell's come a long way, but it still doesn't belong in the ranks of IBM, HP or even Sun.