wlug March 2007

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Fwd: It's Official: Dell Offering Linux on Select Notebooks, PCs

by Ian McDonald

Snippet from today's WinInfo update ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 -Microsoft Updates Zune, Cites Ongoing Successes -Apple Bows to Industry Pressure, Offers Album Discounts 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.

14 years, 7 months

REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!

by Meeting Reminder Bot

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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).

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Re: [wlug] OpenSourceHowTo.org

by jaytee＠clear.net.nz

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 ----- Original Message Follows ----- > >: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

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Re: [wlug] OpenSourceHowTo.org

by jaytee＠clear.net.nz

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

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OpenSourceHowTo.org

by Paul Matthews

14 years, 7 months

REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday

by Meeting Reminder Bot

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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).

14 years, 7 months

Windows under Ubuntu

by Ian McDonald

This article has a link to running Windows under Ubuntu including some of the nice changes coming up in Ubuntu 7.04: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=17531 -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

14 years, 7 months

How to recover from failed edgy install

by Glenn Ramsey

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 -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz

14 years, 7 months

Linus discusses GPL v2/v3

by Ian McDonald

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198002077 -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

14 years, 7 months

MS announce putting Visual FoxPro into OSS

by James Pluck

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..."

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