Comments on: 1st, 3rd, and 4th Top-selling Laptops in Amazon Germany Come with GNU/Linux http://techrights.org/2009/10/06/amazon-germany-linux/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Mikko http://techrights.org/2009/10/06/amazon-germany-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-73871 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:26:07 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=19575#comment-73871 Can’t buy a linux laptop here in microsoft land

]]> By: Dennis Murczak http://techrights.org/2009/10/06/amazon-germany-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-73870 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:04:06 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=19575#comment-73870 Sorry for my rant above there.

I see the long descriptions have been updated since I lasted dropped by on Amazon a month ago. For the Asus notebooks it mentions the non-graphical nature of the preinstalled OS more explicitly now. These are definitely machines for price-conscious geeks, and it’s good to have them even with only a minority continuing to run Linux.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/10/06/amazon-germany-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-73869 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:00:23 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=19575#comment-73869 Think of it as Dell’s old FreeDOS machines, which were bought by people who installed their distro of choice. The important thing is that these laptops are Linux (kernel) compatible.

]]> By: Dennis Murczak http://techrights.org/2009/10/06/amazon-germany-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-73868 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:25:09 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=19575#comment-73868 Further reading into the comments, it seems the Asus notebooks are preinstalled with Red Flag Linux configured to boot straightly into … bash. An Ubuntu user wrote he could make X start up, but just that; no window manager came up.

Yeah, way to go, Asus.

]]> By: Dennis Murczak http://techrights.org/2009/10/06/amazon-germany-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-73866 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:54:11 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=19575#comment-73866 Sadly, 80% of the product comments deal with how to install various versions of Windows :-( As a German I can tell you that no one will give you a blank stare when you mention Linux (Mac most likely will), but also that everyone has a pirated Windows CD within arm’s reach or at least a buddy phone call away. Burning 20000€ worth of warez onto a single DVD and sharing with as many friends as possible seems to be a kind of questionable leisure sport, and has been the doom of *every* Linux installation (over 60 so far) I did on computers other than my own ones.

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