On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:18:10PM -0400, Roy wrote:
> Isn't Linpus crippled so that users can't install anything? There are hacks
> that give you a password, but ordinary users are left with the system as it
> is shipped. They can't add or remove.
Oh Lawdy, it's crippled in myriads of ways. You get one user, who will
use sudo. They can install things. I haven't used it now in over a
year, so I've forgotten the details, but I remember even adding a user
was problematic.
I often wondered if it was almost deliberate on the netbook
manufacturers' part. Not only Acer, but MSI, and a few others,
including Asus, would offer netbooks with Linux, but it was always a
modified version that didn't work as well as the real thing. Actually,
ASUS might have done the best with Xandros, but from what I understand,
their Xandros was a bit crippled too.
Dell, and one other--Syvania?
still does--and one other offered GOS. I think in other parts of the
world, Linux netbooks are still readily available, but here in the US,
they've become hard to find. Which isn't a big deal save for the MS
tax--I just wipe Windows and install various flavors---or flavours as
you Canadians would write--of Linux.
Actually, I mentioned this in my Amazon review of the 1005HA, and
someone asked how easy or difficult Ubuntu would be, and would it be a
better choice than Windows. So, there are signs here and there, if
Linux would only stop shooting itself in the foot. (For example, around
the 2.6.29-2.6.31 kernels, they really messed up the Atheros driver,
making the wireless on many netbooks almost unusable. )
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