If Dell had released it's announcement that it was going to sell laptops with Ubuntu on them a couple of days earlier my daughter would be running around college with a Dell laptop instead of a HP laptop. if you want to get good ATI drivers go to Dells website and buy a Linux computer. When Dell calls ATI and says they want a box car of hardware with a option to buy 40 more but only if they have fully functional LINUX drivers ATI will a lot more interested in Linux OSS drivers. Money talks everything else is BS.
I don't see Ubuntu knocking off Redhat we are all looking in the wrong direction I think that the Linux desktop belongs to Dellnux or maybe Einux. Microsoft is like a drunk stumbling towards a cliff and I think that with Vista they may have finally fallen over the edge. If you open any ad in the Sunday paper you will see $399 computers from a bevy of manufactures catering to the low end user and there are lots of low end users who just want a cheap computer. When Vista hits the market in a few months all of those manufactures are going to have a problem Vista won't run on a $399 Computer the hardware requirements are too steep to be that cheap and the manufactures are going to start looking for some way to cut the cost so they can stick with the cheap hardware.My feeling is that they are going to cut deals with the Ubuntus and Redhats of the world to provide support for their new linux based operating systems and with millions of computers behind it those operating systems they are going to take the desktop by storm. If you don't beleive me check out how many Linspire boxes the FRY's sells a month now just think if that was Dell.
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If Dell had released it's announcement that it was going to sell laptops with Ubuntu on them a couple of days earlier my daughter would be running around college with a Dell laptop instead of a HP laptop. if you want to get good ATI drivers go to Dells website and buy a Linux computer. When Dell calls ATI and says they want a box car of hardware with a option to buy 40 more but only if they have fully functional LINUX drivers ATI will a lot more interested in Linux OSS drivers. Money talks everything else is BS.
I don't see Ubuntu knocking off Redhat we are all looking in the wrong direction I think that the Linux desktop belongs to Dellnux or maybe Einux. Microsoft is like a drunk stumbling towards a cliff and I think that with Vista they may have finally fallen over the edge. If you open any ad in the Sunday paper you will see $399 computers from a bevy of manufactures catering to the low end user and there are lots of low end users who just want a cheap computer. When Vista hits the market in a few months all of those manufactures are going to have a problem Vista won't run on a $399 Computer the hardware requirements are too steep to be that cheap and the manufactures are going to start looking for some way to cut the cost so they can stick with the cheap hardware.My feeling is that they are going to cut deals with the Ubuntus and Redhats of the world to provide support for their new linux based operating systems and with millions of computers behind it those operating systems they are going to take the desktop by storm. If you don't beleive me check out how many Linspire boxes the FRY's sells a month now just think if that was Dell.