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Okay, so we have your definition. Other than the issue of 'publicly
accepted' it sounds valid. Personally, I don't care what's 'publicly
accepted' because I generally know as much or more about computers as a
whole the the folks I'm in meetings with. Further I am more productive
on Linux then I would be on a Windows computer. OSX, I don't know, I've
not used it. I have a feeling I'd like it better than Windows, but less
than Linux. The thing I like about Linux is, if I can't get it to work
like I want it to, I can lift the hood and make it work.
I also feel much more comfortable sitting down to work with a Linux
based laptop then Windows. It just plain works and I have a whole lot
fewer problems than my windows counterparts.
> Just the facts. And I
> promise, getting the ATi card in this laptop to output to an external
> television or something that is NOT VGA is a real pain in the ass and
> the device has to be plugged in _before_ the laptop is turned on.
>
> The wireless card in this machine is of the Orinoco/Hermes II variety.
> It is quite possibly one of the best, non-Prism II (as in
> prism54.org), supported cards in Linux available. The support
> absolutely sucks. I am not saying it is any fault of the people
> developing the drivers -- they are doing the best that they can with
> the information that they have. All I am saying is that I have to do a
> lot of low level stuff [driver code editing] to get certain things to
> work that should "just work".
Well, if you're willing to spend the money you can get a laptop
preinstalled, with support and all. I did that with my Sony, picked it
up from Emperor Linux (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.emperorlinux.com/";>http://www.emperorlinux.com/</a>). It has a prism54
based wireless card, which I purchased at a later date from them.
Completely supported in their kernel. It just works. I've even
installed two different distros on it, and Emperor Linux provides a
kernel rpm that you can use with those distros. I recently upgraded my
SuSE 9.2 to the 2.6 kernel provided by Emperor Linux.
> And yes, I have used wine and crossover. Aside from the fact that
> Mathcad (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mathsoft.com/";>http://www.mathsoft.com/</a>), the only application I use Windows
> for for class, will not work with either because it requires .NET,
> which won't work with either, I don't like wine nor crossover as a
> solution. Truly, they are a poor solution to a legitimate problem.
What would you suggest as a good solution? Other than the vendor
porting to Linux.
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Until later, Geoffrey
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