SCO to continue the fight? [LWN.net]

SCO to continue the fight?

Posted Feb 16, 2008 20:55 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767)
In reply to: SCO to continue the fight? by NigelK
Parent article: SCO to continue the fight?

The Eee PC is a top notch machine, BTW.  I bought one about a week ago.  And it is everything
I had hoped for and more.  XO is going to have to compete... rather than living on the
kindness of strangers.  Some people have problems dealing with that concept.

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SCO to continue the fight?

Posted Feb 16, 2008 21:07 UTC (Sat) by NigelK (guest, #42083) [Link]

I've had mine for a little over a month, and the only fault I can find is that you really do
need to upgrade the RAM to 1GB, and that the machine runs quite hot (although I'm told not as
hot as laptops).

I love the machine, and yet if PJ had her way, I'd be denied the option of buying one.

PJ's lost sight of the following:

1) It doesn't matter a damn what laptops children get so long as they get laptops.

2) It doesn't matter a damn what is installed on the laptops so long as the children can do
what they want to do.

3) Linux subnotebooks have entered the market at such a low price that kids around the world
(first, third, whatever) will get their hands on one. 

This is a very exciting time for both Linux fans and tech geeks, and here's PJ telling the
world that only one company should be allowed to do all this. She has lost sight of what
freedom is all about.

N.

SCO to continue the fight?

Posted Feb 16, 2008 21:21 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]

Mine has been exceedingly zippy, running Ubuntu Gutsy, on just 512MB.  It doesn't even go into
swap. (/proc/sys/vm/swappiness=0)

That's with an OO.o spreadsheet, wordprocecessing document, Epiphany browser session, and
Evolution email session up.  It is still only using about 160MB.

I know what you mean, though.  I feel so strongly about Linux that I sometimes have to stop
myself before I, as a consultant and systems admin, restrict someone else's freedom in the
name of Linux.  It's an easy pit to fall into.  And it can be done with the very best of
intentions.