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Gordon Henderson wrote: > > > We need a distro that's nicely tuned to the platform, but for that, we > need the makers to actually employ someone to produce that distro tuned > and installed on the platform - or a "recovery" disk that will just do a > block-copy of an install. Doesn't need to be the makers. Anyone who can get the money - the OFSET CD was a good example although not hardware specific. But I think this is an Achilles heel for traditional proprietary software. For Free Software some pharmacist in his spare room can port thousands of applications to a new platform as a side effect of getting the ones he wants, where as if Microsoft introduce a new platform they need thousands of ISV to co-operate to make the same thing happen. Here it is interesting that web applications are coming to the for, as all you need is to port a browser, or build an app which is 90% browser. Witness the proliferation of such on the iPhone - some nice apps but a lot of them are either trivial, or are relying heavily on existing server side code. The future is thin client versus freedom. -- 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