Snippet from today's WinInfo update
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From: WinInfo UPDATE <WinInfo_UPDATE(a)list.windowsitpro.com>
Date: 29 Mar 2007 11:50:38 PDT
Subject: It's Official: Dell Offering Linux on Select Notebooks, PCs
To: ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz
- It's Official: Dell Offering Linux on Select Notebooks, PCs
==== IN THE NEWS ================================
-It's Official: Dell Offering Linux on Select Notebooks, PCs
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by Paul Thurrott, thurrott(a)windowsitpro.com
Dell has responded to overwhelming feedback from its IdeaStorm
customer feedback site this week by announcing that it will soon begin
offering the open-source OS Linux on select Dell desktop and notebook
PCs. The announcement comes about a month and a half after IdeaStorm
was first brought online. The availability of Linux was,
overwhelmingly, the number one customer request.
"We have heard you and appreciate the direct feedback," Dell wrote to
customers in a posting to its corporate blog. "We will expand our
Linux support beyond our existing servers and Precision workstation
line. Our first step in this effort is offering Linux pre-installed on
select desktop and notebook systems. We will provide an update in the
coming weeks that includes detailed information on which systems we
will offer, our testing and certification efforts, and the Linux
distribution(s) that will be available. The countdown begins today."
Dell's sudden fixation on customer feedback comes in the wake of a
disappointing year in which it fell from its perch atop the PC
industry, ousted its CEO, and saw founder Michael Dell retake the
reins of the company. Mr. Dell feels that better connecting with its
customers--and delivering exactly what they want--is the key to future
growth.
That said, it's unclear how offering a free OS--one that Dell will
need to support--will dramatically improve the bottom line. In the
battle for the desktop, Windows remains the overwhelming champion,
with more than 95 percent of the market. Apple's Mac OS X accounts for
about 2.5 percent of the worldwide OS market.
There's a WLUG meeting tonight:
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Shane Hobson from LiteUp will be speaking on the fibre network around Hamilton that they manage and are expanding. This is the network that Hamilton City Council have put in and the government has just given $3 million to. It is an open access network similar to CityLink in Wellington.
The meeting will be at 7:30pm, TW.2.05 (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TW).
Not really a concern about my name I am also known as jjohn
and jtohn so J'ohn will be fine.
I still maintain that the word "tos" looks awful in
howtos...
Regards J'ohn
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> >:DOn Sun, 2007-03-25 at 11:46 +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:>
> Hi Jâohn,> > * jaytee(a)clear.net.nz
<jaytee(a)clear.net.nz>
> [2007-03-25 08:30]:> > How-tos may be correct but it looks
> awful. I prefer the> > incorrect "how-to's"> > I know your
> name is âJohnâ but I think that looks too
plain.
> Iâll> be writing it Jâohn instead from now
on.> > With
> pleasure
> ,_______________________________________________wlug
> mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nzUnsubscribe:
> http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
How-tos may be correct but it looks awful. I prefer the
incorrect "how-to's"
Regards John
> Thus, the plural of how-to is how-tos. The plural of wiki
> is wikis. > Unsubscribe:
> http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday:
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Shane Hobson from LiteUp will be speaking on the fibre network around Hamilton that they manage and are expanding. This is the network that Hamilton City Council have put in and the government has just given $3 million to. It is an open access network similar to CityLink in Wellington.
The meeting will be at 7:30pm, TW.2.05 (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TW).
Hi,
My attempt to upgrade my laptop from Dapper to Edgy has failed.
After booting it goes into single user mode and I assume that upstart is
not installed correctly.
Does anyone know how to recover from this? I searched but so far haven't
found anything helpful.
Glenn
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Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077
http://www.componic.co.nz
An interesting turnup for the books.
MS on Monday announced they will be producing no further versions of
VisFox and are releasing the core code of Visual FoxPro to the Open
Source Community.
http://tinyurl.com/2byuwo
--
James Pluck
PalmOS Ergo Sum
"Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription.
Please remove my name from your mailing list..."
