On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:12:17 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ____/ 7 on Monday 21 January 2008 20:09 : \____
>
>> Micoshaft Corporation's Fraudulent Asstroturfer Moshe Goldfarb wrote on
>> behalf of Micoshaft Corporation:
>>
>>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:09:51 -0600, chrisv wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mark Kent wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Anyway, to sum up all the grief of getting your Ubuntu pre-installed,
>>>>>it kind of goes like this:
>>>>>
>>>>>1. Spec and order PC
>>>>>2. Obtain mouse, keyboard & monitor
>>>>>3. Plug it all together
>>>>>4. Use it.
>>>>
>>>> What? No hour installing drivers after the OS in installed? No hour
>>>> downloading and installing "critical updates" No hour fixing
>>>> brain-dead defaults, like dancing dogs, file-extension hiding, and
>>>> Fisher-Price themes? No hour installing the basic utilities required
>>>> to actually DO something with the computer?
>>>
>>> No.
>>> He spent all that time trying to find some obscure application in
>>> order to make his dual monitor set up work.
>>
>>
>> Its looking like micoshaft is getting worried by the minute as more and
>> more small PC houses start taking orders and shipping cutting edge
>> Linux installed. They are not dependent on micoshaft for anything.
>>
>> Web Servers, Media Servers, Beryl + Compiz fitted desktops, laptops,
>> UMPCs, flat TVs, tom toms, MP3 players, MP4 players, home servers,
>> telephony servers, firewalls, database servers, virtual servers, etc.
>> etc. etc..
>
> Ubuntu has a nice graphical front end that manages multi-head displays.
> Fedora and SUSE have that too (SUSE has had it for _AGES_ with
> YaST/SaX2).
>
> Gary Stewart is just spreading FUD (Big lie, big lie, big lie) because
> the ease of Linux setup scares Microsoft, which has /already/ lost
> control of the OEM channel.
Microsoft has NOT lost control of the OEM channel. There may be some
cracks in the wall, but they are very small cracks in a very large wall.
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Rick
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