__/ [ [H]omer ] on Wednesday 31 January 2007 10:59 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Building a computer yourself could be risky or tricky because, unlike the
>> cases above, you haven't the test and guarantee that each individual part
>> works hand in glove with Linux.
>
> Could be, yes, but I very rarely find it so.
>
> Going back a few years, I used to research the hardware for Linux
> compatibility, but these days, I find it mostly unnecessary.
>
> Vista users are far more likely to have problems than us:
>
> http://blog.flaphead.dns2go.com/archive/2007/01/31/vista-no-not-again.aspx
I haven't looked at the link, but it sounds rather harsh. Vista? What's that?
Is it one of those older Linux distros like LFS? Oh, wait... I remember
something about compatibility in that distro called "Vista"...
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2237
Lack of Internal Talks at Microsoft, Google
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| Maybe my "Microsoft's Entertainment Domination" theory was a bit
| premature. Apparently, the Zune MP3 player isn't flying off shelves
| and now it turns out that the Zune is incompatible with Microsoft'
| latest Windows Vista operating system. Amazing how a disconnect like
| this can occur within an organization. Software start-ups are taking
| advantage of the lowered development costs and the speedy development
| time -- and forcing large software organizations to speed up their
| own development cycles, but in the process, the large organizations
| are fumbling to communicate effectively amongst their departments.
`----
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/15/lack-of-internal-talks-at-microsoft-google/
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