They may not have the fancy drivers needed to get the optimal performance out of some of the video cards, but they work well enough to get you going until (and unless) you decide to install it.
No fancy drivers in Linux vs. fancy drivers in Windows just isn't good enough though.
As a hardware company Dell can simply ask their suppliers to provide Linux drivers, I doubt lack of hardware support is a reason for Dell deciding against a Linux option throughout their range.
Well then they'll have to turn the damn thing on theirselves, wasting all of 2 minutes.
This is a greater problem than you think. Our policy is that we have to turn off out laptops every evening, it takes 10-15 minutes for my laptop to boot and have Outlook up and running in the morning, this is due to the various crapware it must run in our environment. The newest laptops where I work still take over 5 minutes to boot. Even with the newer laptops that means that in any year employees are loosing half a working week every year waiting for computers to become usable, I seriously doubt any of the IT guys where I work earn less in half a week than the additional electricity costs required to keep their PC running 24x7.
4) Your car requires you to have a drivers license to drive, annual inspections/emissions. To make sure you have at least some cursory knowledge of the road rules, and to make sure your car's tail-pipe won't fal off in mid drive. India does not have this.
Swiss banks have very strict polices on who they do business with and war criminals, murderous dictators, terrorists and drug dealers are all black listed. Read any of the > 75,000 Google results from "swiss banks freeze accounts".
"Global bankers to crime" is completely inaccurate.
Openfiler is great but when they moved from CentOS to Rpath without any simple upgrade path for their non paying customers my love affair with them ended.
http://www.freenas.org/ is attractive, or build something simple on top of Ubuntu server.
Since MS handle advertising for the site they are probably in a pretty good position to judge the growth and future value of said advertising reveneue.
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They may not have the fancy drivers needed to get the optimal performance out of some of the video cards, but they work well enough to get you going until (and unless) you decide to install it.
No fancy drivers in Linux vs. fancy drivers in Windows just isn't good enough though. As a hardware company Dell can simply ask their suppliers to provide Linux drivers, I doubt lack of hardware support is a reason for Dell deciding against a Linux option throughout their range.
Well then they'll have to turn the damn thing on theirselves, wasting all of 2 minutes.
This is a greater problem than you think. Our policy is that we have to turn off out laptops every evening, it takes 10-15 minutes for my laptop to boot and have Outlook up and running in the morning, this is due to the various crapware it must run in our environment. The newest laptops where I work still take over 5 minutes to boot. Even with the newer laptops that means that in any year employees are loosing half a working week every year waiting for computers to become usable, I seriously doubt any of the IT guys where I work earn less in half a week than the additional electricity costs required to keep their PC running 24x7.
4) Your car requires you to have a drivers license to drive, annual inspections/emissions. To make sure you have at least some cursory knowledge of the road rules, and to make sure your car's tail-pipe won't fal off in mid drive. India does not have this.
Not so: http://www.indiandrivingschools.com/driving-license-in-india.html
I suspect 2) and 3) are inaccurate too.
and 'their' was me thinking you'd made an amusingly ironic typo, thanks for clearing it up.
The internet just makes it easier and faster for morons to display their stupid.
Their what?
Swiss banks have very strict polices on who they do business with and war criminals, murderous dictators, terrorists and drug dealers are all black listed. Read any of the > 75,000 Google results from "swiss banks freeze accounts". "Global bankers to crime" is completely inaccurate.
Would someone kindly explain why it's "apt-get" instead of "app-get"? what's with the 't'?
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Openfiler is great but when they moved from CentOS to Rpath without any simple upgrade path for their non paying customers my love affair with them ended. http://www.freenas.org/ is attractive, or build something simple on top of Ubuntu server.
Since MS handle advertising for the site they are probably in a pretty good position to judge the growth and future value of said advertising reveneue.