“James Turner: ‘Linux is nowhere near ready for the
desktop’“In the spirit of the new Linux desktop initiatives that have
been announced over the last few weeks, I took another try at
getting my laptop to run Linux tonight.“I had only two criteria:
- “My DVD player needed to work
- “My SMC 802.11g card needed to work
“Well folks, I can report that Linux is as useless on an
off-the-shelf laptop as it was six months ago…”
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