Star The Linux Foundation and the Future of Linux
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Apr 2008 20:06 UTC, submitted by melkor
Linux "I came away from the second annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit with mixed feelings. I mean, it's hard not to support the group that pays Linus Torvalds to spend his time continuing to lead the poster-boy project for free and open source software. But at the same time, those golden chains are my biggest concern about the Linux Foundation."
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RE: Good article
by lemur2 on Wed 16th Apr 2008 04:03 UTC in reply to "Good article"
lemur2
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2007-02-17

I worry about linux on the desktop too. Linux has become very advanced but it is difficult to take advantage of some of these advanced features if the drivers don't work or are incomplete.


If you are wanting to run a Linux desktop, then run it on Linux desktop hardware.

There are people who are willing to sell you such:

http://www.system76.com/
http://www.zareason.com/shop/home.php
http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html

Apparently, buried deep somewhere within their site, you can also buy such hardware from Dell.

You will have no troubles at all with drivers then ... less trouble in fact than with drivers for Vista for some hardware that comes with a "designed for Windows" sticker on it.

Just as you should run Vista only on hardware "certified for Vista", and you would run OSX only on a Mac ... the equivalent consideration should also apply to Linux.

If for some unfatomable reason you are constrained to run your desktop Linux on desktop hardware that was not necessarily originally designed to run Linux, then, unlike Vista or OSX, in many cases this is possible but it pays to check it out first:

http://www.linuxcompatible.org/
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/compatibility.html

Edited 2008-04-16 04:11 UTC

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