[sclug] Post: See you later Linux

[alan c]

The hardware issues you are finding and your understandable reaction 
support the view that you are not free to choose what OS to use.

You were not free when you made the original purchases - the machines 
came with windows only, and now when you want a choice, you are 
apparently finding they are not capable of using anything else.

The situation is not simply one of technical merit, this is a somewhat 
narrow view. There are any number of powerful interests wanting to 
limit your choice - your freedom in fact - to their own advantage. It 
seems that unfortunately so far, they are succeeding in making it hard 
enough that you remain as you are without the freedom you desire.

The free software activities worldwide are driven by the principles of 
obtaining and maintaining freedom, more than the lesser goal of being 
gratis.

I do not criticise you if your efforts to date are not fruitful enough 
to make big changes, but I make the point that freedom is hard won and 
easily lost, and there is no certainty that freedom will actually win.

I welcome that you are keeping an open mind about linux.

I ask you to also consider how you would feel if a large powerful 
company antagonistic to linux managed by clever use of money, patents, 
and other means of control, to gain a strangelhold on the situation 
and extinguished the flame of freedom?

BTW did you know that Page up and Page down have just recently been 
patented?

alan c




mskadu at gmail.com wrote:
> Alan,
> 
> Thanks for the info, but at the moment I am not considering buying new
> hardware. At present, I am set with one office and one home laptop.
> 
> - Mayuresh
> 
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:47 PM, alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
> 
>> mskadu at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> I also feel I should point out that I have not turned my back on Linux.
>>> Like
>>> I've said before, I remain a devout advocate of Linux as a server OS. But
>>> I
>>> have decided to drop the Linux OS in it's present state until, as my blog
>>> entry says, **I can find a release that "just works"*.*
>>>
>>
>> have you considered:
>>
>> http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/emea/segments/gen/client/en/ubuntu_landing?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs
>>
>> http://www.clove.co.uk/viewProduct.aspx?Manufacturer=ASUS&Item=ASUSEEEPC901-WHITE&Product=9A6C537F-7973-4075-98CE-7A39AE68AD0B&Category=DDCFA00F-7469-4EA2-BECB-AAECD7EAD4F9
>>
>> http://www.clove.co.uk/viewProduct.aspx?Manufacturer=Acer&Item=AcerAspireOne-AOA150-Ab(Linux,1GBRam,120GB,Blue)&Product=95C5937D-E235-4D4C-9223-412BDEFE2CAE&Category=DDCFA00F-7469-4EA2-BECB-AAECD7EAD4F9<http://www.clove.co.uk/viewProduct.aspx?Manufacturer=Acer&Item=AcerAspireOne-AOA150-Ab%28Linux,1GBRam,120GB,Blue%29&Product=95C5937D-E235-4D4C-9223-412BDEFE2CAE&Category=DDCFA00F-7469-4EA2-BECB-AAECD7EAD4F9>
>> http://www.elonexone.co.uk/
>> http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.204-8967.aspx
>>
>> or alternatively, consider:
>> http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/
>> and spend a short time at their premises in Reading with a live CD and
>> purchase  from their hardware range - offered for sale with no OS - having
>> verified that things do work ok on your selected model?
>>
>> --
>> alan cocks
>> Kubuntu user#10391
>> Linux user #360648
>>
> 
> 
> 


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alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391
Linux user #360648