On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 09:11, John P. Looney wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:05:21AM +0100, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions mentioned:
> > > Just ship it with opendos or something - enough to say "I
> > > booted from the hard disk, looks like it's working, now
> > > install what you want".
> > That is working on the presumption that the only linux users or potential
> > linux users have the inclination, time and skill to install an OS.
>> Hardly a fantastic presumption though. Assuming a chimp can install SuSE
> these days (I've not actually tried it) on a laptop that works fine with
> SuSE, a Linux User can too. Even one of those "I run gentoo for that extra
> 3% increase in kernel compiles" guys.
That might exactly be those type of users, that reinstall their notebook, but there are
people out there, that are installing Linux, just like they install Windows: Insert CD,
let it run though and configure it with the given gui tools. Nothing more, nothing less.
For these users the work HP does in such a case is needed, because they will never get to
the point, where they even compile a optimised kernel w/ACPI OR find the necessary drivers
for getting the stuff in that notebook to work, that isn't in a vanilla kernel by default
(like WLan drivers for Intel Centrino WLan cards, can't be any other, because it wouldn't be
permitted to be called Centrino then).
Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen
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