Star Luis Villa: Communities Should Help Small Linux OEMs
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 23rd Sep 2006 22:43 UTC
Linux GNOME's Luis Villa has wrote an interesting entry in his blog, explaining why it is in Linux's best interest that distribution communities seek out small Linux OEM companies and help them in providing the best Linux experience possible. "Obviously it is in RH, Canonical, and Novell's interests to actively pursue Big Enterprise Fish like HP and Dell. But I'm really surprised that the communities around these distros haven't sought out the smaller, and potentially growing, companies that are offering computers with Linux pre-installed. It seems like this is a win-win for everyone."
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RE[4]: I'd like to know why...
by DrillSgt on Sun 24th Sep 2006 22:27 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: I'd like to know why..."
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2005-12-02

"It's so untrue.

OO.o has fine formatting. I have yet to find a complex Word document that didn't look right in OO.o

Excel documents however is a different issue ;)

Perhaps yahoo video messaging is common in USA, but it's not how it is in the rest of the world. And video messaging _is_ supported on Linux."

Well, my OO.o word documents have never looked right when opened with Word after doing them. Could be just my experience of course, or something I am blatantly doing wrong, no denying that.

Yahoo is what is in use by many businesses and people in the US, simply as it was there before MSN was. I do know that MSN is in use heavily over the world just not in the US. Since that is where I live, that is what I use in order to communicate.

Voice and Video is in Linux if you can get someone to use Netmeeting, as it does not work with MSN either without crashing out.

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