No Pre-Installed Windows/Linux Machines on CRN

Rene Pawlitzek writes " This is great news for all Linux and OS/2 lovers. Finally, after many years of pre-installed (and useless) Windows we will be able to buy laptops without any Microsoft operating system. Did the Windows refund day pay off? "

Comments

Now if we could just get ARM CPUs

[bluGill]

With linux who needs x86? Unless you plan on using Wine (which is nice, but not useful for more people) x86 with all the power comsumption doesn't make sense. Lets see a laptop with an ARM (strong Arm?) processor.

Oh, how much you want to bet that someone will release a no-OS system with hardware that linux does not support? (Either a winmodem or a display without xfree86 suppot)

Driver support

[skip277]

I think the best thing that will come of this is that vendors will start thinking about what hardware they put in their machines. The article said:

"But one stumbling block for VARs working with Linux on notebooks is that driver support is hard to come by, he said.

"We end up having to go back and create drivers that are backwards compatible with the hardware," said Augustin."

Maybe they'll think about this in the future and go with vendors for whose hardware there is already support or nudge them into creating drivers.

Dreaming of a world where all my hardware works. :-)

Skippy