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Big deal. All HP is doing here is, instead of pre-installing Linux, it’s forcing customers to download Linux for free and install it themselves.
For the most part, they are right.
Not that Microsoft isn't celebrating any small victory that comes their way these days.
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
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What?
This CAN’T be correct.
The Linux hounds have been insisting the netbooks were finally where they were finally going to pierce the market, weren’t all of the original models only loaded with Linux?
Yet another “year of the Linux” fails again I guess. Unless you’re in China, where they FORCE you to use it.
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Its-Linux-—or-Else-—in-Parts-of-China-65362.html
The last thing I would want to run on an under powered netbook is Windows of any flavor. The antivirus software would slow the machine to an utter crawl-—just like many Win XP and Vista on more powerful machines.
MicroSoft “persuaded” them to make the MS-preferred choice.
These Linux notebooks were on the verge of causing a sea change in OS use, as myself and many experts feel, and MS needed to stomp it out before it happened.
Oh no!, the penguin is the next victim of gloBULL warming!
/sarc
We had server running novell in the back corner of the sever room. I guess the department that used it had left and never shut it down. It had been running for over 7 years with out a boot when a electrical worker took out all power to the server room.
That’s a load of crap.
HP doesn’t want to support .nix for the masses.