[ILUG] Naive ADSL/WiFi questions (long (sorry!))?

[Michael Watterson]

John Madden wrote:
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> On (22/06/07 11:58), Ian O'Connell said:
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>> Yes, i never said i agreed with it, but its just the way it is. If
>> your forced to pay for something i damn sure try get some use out of
>> it.
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> It's "the way it is" because people don't complain about it. If people
> complained and / or went to a competitor, things would change. Look at
> Dell - it's taken years, but they're finally offering Linux as a
> pre-installed option, because customers want it.
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I was giving RH6.0 Linux training to Dell folks because they were 
offering RH in 1998/1999

Most companies to be successful supply what the customer wants. Mostly 
Linux is not a pre-installed option because hardly anyone wants it. 
However if  things progress as they are Ubuntu is starting to look 
better for unliterate computer users than Vista.  Since using various 
UNIX/Linux systems since 1985 I never thought I would say that.

BTW while most ISP customers may run Windows 85% or so, the ISPs use 
about  50%  windows  servers,  the rest Linux and  some  Solaris usually 
for specialist Network boxes that come with it as remote front end. The 
Hosting services prefer Linux as it is cheaper and a little less 
resource hungry,  so customers  with  hosted servers pay more for  
Windows. An ISP is rubbish at managing its own network unless it has a 
lot of Unix expertise.

 

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Mike