[H-GEN] Linux lagging in local desktops - australianIT.com.au report

[Greg Black]

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On 2003-07-08, David Jericho wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:53:49PM +1000, Sandra Milne wrote:
> > Linux lagging in local desktops (Kate Mackenzie and Jennifer
> > Foreshew, July 08, 2003) VENDORS who sell PCs with Linux
> > installed in countries such as the US and New Zealand are
> > shying away from doing so in Australia, citing a lack of
> > demand.
> 
> I find comments like this bogus. I'm more likely to buy a PC without an
> operating system, than I am to buy one with Linux installed, even if the
> end point is installing Linux.

Yup; I bought a PC yesterday and specified that it be provided
without any OS, even though I was given a choice of possible
installations.  It's difficult enough for PC vendors to connect
the wires properly without hoping they might manage something as
tricky as an OS install.

These people spent all day Saturday failing to connect two hard
disks, one DVD, one CD-RW, one floppy and 1 GB of memory in such
a way that the system would start.

They finally managed to get it going late on Monday, albeit with
the memory in 3 slots rather than the 2 requested; with a video
card that was not the one specified (and which probably won't
work when I eventually figure out how to burn a CD and install
an OS); and with the various disks and optical media hooked up
in the least useful configuration (which I will have to change
when I find a few minutes to pull it all apart).  The thought of
using an OS that they had installed would just be too awful.

Cheers, Greg

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