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____/ Homer on Wednesday 07 January 2009 08:56 : \____
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> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> ____/ Megabyte on Tuesday 30 December 2008 23:53 : \____
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> [snip Ubuntu Netbooks deal]
>
>>> Isn't this similar to what someone else advocated here recently and
>>> was labeled a troll? ;-)
>>
>> How so?
>
> He was arguing that Linux Netbooks need (in his opinion) to be preloaded
> with "full" distros, rather than "locked down" interfaces, and also that
> they were disadvantaged compared to XP Netbooks, because of the PDA-like
> perception people have of them, and the use of SSDs instead of HDDs.
>
> IIRC he was "labeled[sic] a troll" because every one of those assertions
> is false, and so his rants on the subject were considered FUD.
He's not a troll. He has been pro-Linux for years. That said, some days ago, he
cited "lies, damn lies, and statistics," which was disappointing.
> What Megabyte fails to realise is that this Ubuntu deal will not produce
> Netbooks preinstalled with a "full distro", but just yet another "locked
> down" interface called "Ubuntu Netbook Remix", which is just Canonical's
> proprietary (codecs) version of Ubuntu customised for small displays (or
> what Megabyte calls "locked-down").
>
> Certainly those /codecs/ are "locked down", as they are proprietary, but
> the GUI is just a Window Manager, not entirely dissimilar to any other -
> except smaller, and ultimately replaceable by the user (as is everything
> else in GNU/Linux, including those proprietary Fluendo codecs).
Agreed.
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