Re: [News] Foxconn Reported to FTC for Sabotage Against Linux

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:58:54 -0400, DFS wrote:

> Linonut wrote:

>

>> My Dell laptop has an issue when I boot to the DSL (Damn Small Linux)

>> that's part of Billix. The author of that package, Bill Childers sent

>> me an email indicating to use the "acpi=off" option, and that did the

>> trick for me.

>

> That's Linux cripple-ware for you - disable features just so it will run.

>

> Even the "best" (that's rich), "most popular" (also rich) Linux distro,

> Ubuntu, often chokes and freezes unless you use ACPI=off.

>

> Linux = computing asceticism

Classic Linux....

ACPI and Power Management has been a problem for Linux for years and still

they have not made it work as well as it does with Windows.

Here is an example of a Linux pre-loaded laptop that has a LOT of things

that don't work.

Could you imagine buying this thing and finding out how much you paid for

is useless using Linux, but only after you booted the thing and read a

Readme file?

I would be pissed!!

I'll bet a lot of people returned this POS...

After the initial boot and logon, we were faced with a clean,

well-organized desktop, but one element caught our eye right away¡Xa text

document called ThinkPad Readme.txt. We launched it and found that the

document¡¦s first line was ¡§Limitations, Workarounds and How To¡¦s for

SLED10.¡¨ We did not like the sound of that ¡§limitations¡¨ element. After

all, isn¡¦t Linux supposed to be about overcoming limitations?

The first part of the document covered ¡§features not supported.¡¨ Some of

those features are:

* ThinkVantage Active Protection System.

* ThinkVantage Access Connections for SUSE Linux

* ThinkPad Configuration for SUSE Linux

* ThinkPad Power Manager for SUSE Linux

* Wireless WAN Adapter

* ThinkVantage Button

* (Intel Graphics System) DVI Output

From our point of view, Lenovo was not off to a good start.

http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Reviews/Lenovo-Launches-Linux-Laptop-and-Leaves-Lots-of-Questions/

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