| |||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||
Acer likes Linux for laptops (c|net)Acer likes Linux for laptops (c|net)Posted Jun 8, 2008 14:09 UTC (Sun) by felixrabe (guest, #50514)In reply to: Acer likes Linux for laptops (c|net) by Cato Parent article: Acer likes Linux for laptops (c|net)
"would not cost them any more" I have to say that I find that statement, if implemented as stated, rather short-sighted as well. Rather, laptop manufacturers should cooperate financially in some appropriate way so that the infrastructure maintenance won't take the distributor down because of some third-party "mass deployment".
(Log in to post comments)
Acer likes Linux for laptops (c|net) Posted Jun 8, 2008 15:23 UTC (Sun) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]
At least I wouldn't trust some foobar HW manufacturer to excel in security
(or packaging quality needed for dist-upgrades or...) more than a Linux
vendor which has done that successfully already for several years. The
manufacturer could then also market their product with something
like "security updates provided by well-known <name>^{tm} Linux
distribution".
Acer likes Linux for laptops (c|net) Posted Jun 12, 2008 16:44 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link] I was assuming that the laptop vendor would at least provide some mirror capacity to help overall, or even dedicated mirrors. That doesn't really change based on the distro, but it may be they haven't factored in the cost of mirror servers to their business model. Also, I heard somewhere that Xandros updates are very slow, maybe once a year for security updates - if this is true, it's another reason to go with a mainstream distro. Sorting out mirror capacity is much easier than sorting out security updates that are lagging massively behind mainstream distros (and Microsoft).
|
|
||||||||||||