Posted on 06/30/2007 5:14:34 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
When you hear the name EPSON, what images come to your mind? Mine, like many of you I’m sure goes to inkjet printers, or even scanners. But Linux-powered PCs? That one never crossed my mind. EPSON is looking to release both a desktop and laptop running the open-source OS. The Endeavor LX7800 desktop will feature processors ranging from Celeron to Core 2 Duos, (sorry, no AMD here) though little else is known about these.
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http://www.turbolinux.com/cgi-bin/newsrelease/index.cgi?date2=20061129114327&mode=syosai
Strange EPSON woud wait till 2007 to get into the PC market. 12 years too late to be taken as a new PC vendor competing with the big boys like HP and Dell.
That jump off the cliff is gonna hurt.
As one with all of my computers (laptop and desktop) dual boot, Ubuntu 7.04 Linux I can say that Linus is a hobby OS that is almost up to Windows 3.1 in capability and ease of use. The average Joe will never be able to deal with Linux.
Some examples-
Laptop display doesn't work with Linux.
Laptop wireless network card MUST have Windows drivers to work (Linux won't work without Windows... cool!).
Desktop can't get reasonable display resolution with Linux.
Can't get a decent CAD package for Linux. The list goes on and on...
I think of 9-pin dot matrix.
Uhh--I'm running Linux exclusively on my laptop...
Desktop can't get reasonable display resolution with Linux.
...and I'm running 1280x1024 resolution.
Laptop wireless network card MUST have Windows drivers to work
While I'm running that particular configuration, I happen to personally know quite a few people who run wireless natively under Linux--without any troubles.
EPSON made 286, 386, and 486 computers many years ago. I don't recall exactly when they exited the PC market but it seems like it was around the time Intel introduced the Pentium.
I generally have very few problems with laptop displays.
Laptop wireless network card MUST have Windows drivers to work (Linux won't work without Windows... cool!).
Actually, Linux works quite well with a variety of wireless adapters without Windows drivers (Orinoco, Intel, Broadcom, Atheros, Aironet etc).
Well, actually, I think of their new campus building, which I think is impressive.
But Seiko-Epson (or, as it used to be, Shinshu Seiki) has been around for a long time --- I just looked at their corporate page, and they are now over 83,000 employees world-wide.
They were producing handheld computers way back in 1982:
Epson has a web page with their proudest accomplishments of the last 50 years at http://www.epson.co.jp/e/company/milestones.htm.
Why do you keep posting this when we know you've admiited to having a bootable Windows VM on there before?
I happen to personally know quite a few people who run wireless natively under Linux--without any troubles.
Typical linux user response, empty claims of no benefit to anyone.
And right around that time of the Pentium till about a few years ago were the most lucrative years to be selling home/business PC’s. They (EPSON) has lousy timing. I wonder whose plan it was to exit the market right as it was beginning to take off?
Wow, now that brings back some memories.
LOL!!! It hasn't occurred to you that my laptop may not be the same as your laptop? You're not making a very good showing for Linux!
Ironically the only device which I simply cannot, no matter how much I try to accomplish a workaround for it, download drivers, or anything else I’ve tried, get to work in a Linux environment is ... my printer.
:)
What kind of printer is it?
I think they dabbled a little before, as have some names we associate more with general consumer electronics.
Wow, blast from the past. I remember that little thing!
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