Comments on: Is Linux a Lonely Word? http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/2008/06/06/is-linux-a-lonely-word/ News and thoughts from inside the Linux Foundation Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:18:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.5 By: jldugger http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/2008/06/06/is-linux-a-lonely-word/#comment-477 jldugger Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:30:06 +0000 http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/2008/06/06/is-linux-a-lonely-word/#comment-477 So, you might say.. "Mr. Wong is right"? So, you might say.. “Mr. Wong is right”?

]]> By: Gergely Mate http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/2008/06/06/is-linux-a-lonely-word/#comment-474 Gergely Mate Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:26:34 +0000 http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/2008/06/06/is-linux-a-lonely-word/#comment-474 I am a lucky person to have an Acer notebook. It's a low-cost one, but instead of being ugly or featureless, it is nice and featurefull - that's why my choice fell on it. It came with "Linpus" linux preinstalled. However, on the installation was only the command line; no root or any other password was supplied, and the total documentation that came with it was a B5 page more or less with an excerpt of the GPL on it. No desktop software at all. No clues how to get such thing working. It was in November, 2007. Hungary, European Union. It is also a mass sold kind of notebook, so it seems obvious that the purpose of shipping it "with Linux" is almost explicitly holds the intention to discourage any unexperienced users to use Linux. It may be some marketing voices. I am more or less fine with my previous Linux knowledge, after I installed a modern desktop distribution, spent some days to get the wireless adapter working (without being able to get support from Acer on Linux), and still not able to recover my notebook from a suspend state. But I can't describe Acer's attention to be supportive. I am a lucky person to have an Acer notebook. It’s a low-cost one, but instead of being ugly or featureless, it is nice and featurefull - that’s why my choice fell on it. It came with “Linpus” linux preinstalled. However, on the installation was only the command line; no root or any other password was supplied, and the total documentation that came with it was a B5 page more or less with an excerpt of the GPL on it.

No desktop software at all. No clues how to get such thing working. It was in November, 2007. Hungary, European Union.

It is also a mass sold kind of notebook, so it seems obvious that the purpose of shipping it “with Linux” is almost explicitly holds the intention to discourage any unexperienced users to use Linux. It may be some marketing voices.

I am more or less fine with my previous Linux knowledge, after I installed a modern desktop distribution, spent some days to get the wireless adapter working (without being able to get support from Acer on Linux), and still not able to recover my notebook from a suspend state. But I can’t describe Acer’s attention to be supportive.

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