<OT> A bad day in Redmond

Collins Richey crichey
Tue Sep 18 10:33:37 PDT 2007


On 9/18/07, Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> Linux is still not ready for the mass market. Mossberg
> in the WSJ has a review of Ubuntu preinstalled on a Dell
> laptopo. He noted that too much stuff on it didn't work
> out of the box to recommend it to the average user.

[ Problems, etc., snipped ]

All of this is well known. The fact is that Desktop Linux has improved
5000% in the past couple of years, and that's without any real support
by peripheral manufacturers. Just think how much better Linux would be
if just a few manufacturers jumped on board?

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.


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