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Will Dell Be Bad For Ubuntu?
vcore writes "Many people are excited for Ubuntu's upcoming release on Dell computers, and while it is certainly good news there are a few causes for concern. Very few details have emerged so far so it is not completely clear what impact Dell with have on the thriving Ubuntu community. But there are questions concerning support, logistics, pricing, and a number of other areas that are affected. From the article: 'Dell is in the practice of filling their computers with large amounts of "bloatware" and also all sorts of co-branding, but it remains to be seen what they will do with Ubuntu. It has been reported that Dell will be shipping a standard version of Ubuntu 7.04...'"
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Will Dell Be Bad For Ubuntu?
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As long as Mark Shuttleworth doesn't go and do anything foolish like signing cross-licensing patent deals then a big No, but I can guarantee the MS/Novell/Dell deal will be bad for at least two of those organizations. I leave it to you to figure out who exactly
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Have you *tried making Ubuntu's windows turn sideways 45 degrees so that they kinda look cool and overlap a bit? It takes *hours!
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We've all heard the joke about how cars would behave if made by Microsoft, but how about if they were made by the Open Source Movement?
1. The car would come in a kit, and would have to be assembled by hand.
2. The instructions for assembling it would be free, but so poorly written you'd have to hire specialists, who would in the end cost more than a Microsoft car
3. The gearstick would be designed by EMACS fans. It would be powerful, and feature rich, but changing gear would be an 18 step process designed for a driver with 4 hands.
4. If the passenger wanted to read a map, he'd have to enter the driver's seat in order to get permission.
5. The steering wheel would be gone. In its place, an "innovative" interface designed by the Blender and Gimp teams, consisting of 2 dead fish and a broken plastic spatula.
6. Richard Stallman would insist the vehicles be described as GNU/Cars.
7. It would be broken into as frequently as Microsoft cars, despite it's much touted security claims. Joe Sixpack couldn't be bothered to lock the door on his MS car, and he can't be bothered to lock it on his GNU/Car.
8. In car entertainment would consist entirely of items cloned from Microsoft.
9. Your grandmother wouldn't be able to drive it.
I'm a ninja?
Maybe you could set up a system of download repositories containing vast collections of open-source software, and include with the distribution a GUI app which would make installing such software as easy as selecting it from a menu...
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
The Vista installer is just fine, apart from the fact that it installs Vista.
Compared with XP it is 'prettier', asks fewer questions, and can slipsteam updates on its own. I never did try it on blank disk (not formatted with any file system). The XP installer not being able to continue without one was always annoying.
"Sacrifice for the good of The State" - The State
Hopefully it will be a simple matter of typing:
# apt-get remove bloatware
Try explaining that to your grandmother over the phone. It might be impossible in Win but frankly I'd take the inability, over having to spew out lines of commands. Dell will NOT sell systems with Linux on them. When ordering, Grandpa Joe will ask "what's a Linux". The Dell rep will reply "well, it's this different operating system". And grandpa joe says "what's an operating system".
So when linux becomes the Goliath am I suppose to switch and start cheering for Microsoft? I just wouldn't feel right going with the majority.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
If we had flying cars, my kitty would be safe, but my parrot would dead...
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Years ago, I could have done it in 30 minutes or less. Just give a 5th of JD and the windows were absolutely guaranteed to be in various degrees of sideways and even upside down.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
That's the beauty though - you can just root for another Linux distro, like Gentoo.
The leeter we go!
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
nah BSD.
i swear the BSD folks are just sitting there, waiting for Linux to become mainstream so they can become the token elite.
i swear the BSD folks are just sitting there, waiting for Linux to become mainstream so they can become the token elite.
I thought the BSD folks *WERE* the token elite, and us Linux folks were the wanna-bes.
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1) Exposure to something, whether good or bad, is good.
Spoken like a true goatse.cx conneseur, sir.