Re: [LIG] Acers laptop ads

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:17:13 +0530
Sandip Bhattacharya <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Saturday, 24 Sep 2005 17:55, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 05:33:36PM +0530, Kingsly John wrote:
> > >They are probably shipping with a distro that doesn't fully
> > >support all
> > > the hardware.
> >
> > rh 7.3
> >
> 
> Karunakar mentions that it has some Distro called Linpus Linux. And
> the default install drops the user to a shell.
> 

http://www.linpus.com.tw/ -
 & they dont have a stripped down CLI distro
product (except for embedded stuff!)
 This is probably some custom stuff they did or gave on Acer demand,
with Acer specifically demanding a stripped down thing - & not give a
full desktop.
 As a company Acer could well have a full installed & configured
Linux desktop on the laptops, Linpus etc would do them a good job at
getting things preconfigured.
 While reducing the cost may be Acers motive, but the bigger question
is them selling hardware which is not functional when bought? by this
i mean at least the basic hardware - cd drives,
lan, modem, wifi etc should be working with the software installed,
even if it may not have a functional desktop & applications.

Karunakar

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