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Greg Dash wrote: > When machines start shipping with Vista I think PCs will jump up in > price due to the high price for the editions of Vista, Home Basic is > been shunned by some PC manufactures (Acer for one) and "Home Premium" > is more than XP Home was at ship date, I really do hope Dell or > another manufactures start shipping notebooks without an OS or with a > open source OS pre-installed (maybe Ubuntu or Suse) but as Linux is > still a "niche" market despite is rapid growth I think big > manufactures are happy to ship Vista/XP to you even if you end up > using the CD as a coaster. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.5/534 - Release Date: 14/11/2006 > IMHO uptake in Linux depends a) on prior computer use, and b) and purpose. If you buy a PC simply to surf the web, do email, maybe the odd letter, then there is no reason I can think of to stop you using Linux. The more complex your use of the computer, and more specialised your hardware and/or software requirements, the more difficult the transition will be. Currently my system dual boots WinXP and Linux for two reasons: a) the USB video capture is being a pain in the *bleep* in Linux so I'm using Windows for that. b) my University course requires using Visual Basic, Visual C++ and Access among others, and I don't have the time to mess about with WINE to see if I can get them to emulate in it. My laptop on the other hand *could* go all to Linux *if* the blessed wireless would keep stable. It won't come up on boot and I have to issue a couple of commands to activate it, then go into the network app and reinitialise it. Basically I've written a script to initialise the cardbus (which is what dies on the laptop) and inserted it into /etc/init.d. Then I made a symlink to it in /etc/rc5.d and set the permissions properly. So theoretically it ought to run when I enter mode 5 (I'm using Xandros 3.0.2 on the laptop - Debian based). It's not working and I have to run /etc/init.d/cardbus manually. Then it works fine. Am I putting the symlink in the wrong place? If this sounds familiar to some of you, it should. I had to send the laptop in for repair and the warranty suggested they wouldn't have it with Linux onboard. So I sent it in with the original OS put back - allegedly safe in the knowledge I knew how to get the Cardbus working again. Wrong! Kind regards, Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html