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The End is Nigh for XP
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I hate to say it, but this is 100% dead on. I would love to see more OS software in my enterprise, but does anyone have a clue as to what it costs to change out over 10,000 desktops? Not to mention training for all the support folks? Let's not even talk about interop with our customers.
Nightmare, pure nightmare.
The one issue that needs to be looked at is support of new hardware. Why do people run M$ or Apple? It works out of the box 99.999% of the time.
I bought a new Inspiron laptop in Jan, I installed Fedora 4 2 days ago, guess what... That wireless card that is supported? Nope, needs kernel modules to run. My screen? Wrong resolutions, can't get it running in 1280x800. No 3d out of the can.
Issue after issue that took me a whole 25-30 min to fix, but if I was a normal user? I would have booted XP back up so I could get online and forgot about my little experiment with Linux.
If the "desktop" is where some distros want to go, they need to work on supporting the hardware of the desktop. Who cares that you support a 10 year old SCSI adapter? Who is running it? No one.
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I hate to say it, but this is 100% dead on. I would love to see more OS software in my enterprise, but does anyone have a clue as to what it costs to change out over 10,000 desktops? Not to mention training for all the support folks? Let's not even talk about interop with our customers. Nightmare, pure nightmare.
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The one issue that needs to be looked at is support of new hardware. Why do people run M$ or Apple? It works out of the box 99.999% of the time. I bought a new Inspiron laptop in Jan, I installed Fedora 4 2 days ago, guess what... That wireless card that is supported? Nope, needs kernel modules to run. My screen? Wrong resolutions, can't get it running in 1280x800. No 3d out of the can. Issue after issue that took me a whole 25-30 min to fix, but if I was a normal user? I would have booted XP back up so I could get online and forgot about my little experiment with Linux. If the "desktop" is where some distros want to go, they need to work on supporting the hardware of the desktop. Who cares that you support a 10 year old SCSI adapter? Who is running it? No one.
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Seen this before, it's called a Newton 2100. I miss my Newton =(
Ended up going with ES 3.0. I just can't afford to go with an unsupported product and take the chance.
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