[Eug-lug] Linux hits the mainstream (Dell to offer Ubuntu)

[roger]

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 08:46 -0700, Mr O wrote:
> Short answer: No
> 
> A couple weeks ago I installed Sabayon on a machine and it
> actually finished in around an hour I think. Then I rebooted as
> per the instructions and watched it just hang. A few days later
> I took Ubuntu 7.04 and had it installed in 20 minutes.
> 
> I see no reason Dell can't preload at least Java and Flash. They
> aren't open source but they aren't 'illegal' either. Restricted
> drivers are available from a menu. DVD playback on the other
> hand...
> 
> That be all,
> Mr O.
> 

Right. What I also saw as well when testing some distro's in the past 6
mos.  Nor do they really have any popular official or unofficial mirrors
with packages for the closed source binaries when searching via google.

I know redhat has somethings on google, but not as collective as
Mandrakes PLF mirror.  (Now that I recall, PLF also mirrored Ubuntu
other-licensed packages for a short while, but it got yanked.  Probably
due to the close competition of Mandrake & Ubuntu.)


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Wed May 2 12:17:57 PDT 2007