18 Jun
2007
18 Jun
'07
3:53 a.m.
On 6/17/07, Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/17/07, Vivek J. Patankar list307@gmail.com wrote:
Acer models which come preinstalled with Linux usually have a minimal install of Linpus (http://distrowatch.com/linpus). It boots into runlevel 3. To get the laptop to do anything productive, one usually has to format and install a more capable distro.
They might as well sell their laptops OS-less. They're reinforcing the belief that Linux is this GUI-less, strictly geeks only OS.
are canonical/ubuntu folk listening.. maybe another target to have the laptop with a desktop linux installed.. (like dell, hcl..)
Karunakar