Erle Pereira wrote:
Acers Laptop Ad in Times of India (today: 9th May '05), page 15.the "fine print"
"the Linux that is loaded is a free version and would have limited functionality until another operating system is installed"
It is true. :) as far as functionality is concerned. The factory-loaded Linux is of limited functionality. I recently bought an Acer aspire 3002, and it came with Linpus Linux (www.linupus.com). It booted to init 3 only, which will help one only to find if the hardware is okay and with no X server installed. I scrapped it the second day for Suse pro 9.2. And I don't think Acer is gonna disctribute any better Linux distro with the laptops, though I'd really appreciate it.
this is really stupid!... can anything be done to educate the acer guys?
Well, you will get the Acer India number from www.acer.co.in, If you are really interested in educating the marketing guys ( and if they ever care to listen to :)
this doesn't make any sense. It is extremely misleading. What "Missing / defunct " functionality are they talking about? I think it will take us very little time to get *fully* functional *free* *Linux* working on that laptop that they can give out. anyone has any contact with acer?
Free software doest work like proprietary stuff which revels in *limited" functionality.
Ads like these are _extremely misleading, damaging and do more to confuse people about GNU / FSF than anything else. more M$ fud ?
How come it's misleading to say that "The distro I give you is of limited functionality" !!! I don't think it has something to do with the way GNU/FSF and our philosophies work, except that the loaded OS is GNU/Linux with limited functionality :) It's a problem with Acer's Policy not ours, isn't it?
Binulal