article: "How Linux is getting very close to mass adoption"

[Randy Gloden]

Bottom line of article:  For mass adoption, "everything" or at least 
"much more" should work out of the box.

Getting everything to be detected/properly configured right from the 
get-go isn't going to happen anytime soon.  Getting the most popular  
devices should be (and probably is) the focus of these efforts.  Some 
systems I try work top to bottom.  Other computers, like my Compaq 
Presario 061 need some tweaking to get them to be workable at all.  On 
this particular machine, I have to disable ACPI or else I'm in for a 10 
min boot.  For me, this is easy enough.  For a beginner, as for this 
Author, it is the straw that sends them back to XP.

We are getting there, we are just not there yet.

-----------Randy

www.microbabble.com

Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> An article on the site technologyevangelist.com titled:
>   "Ubuntu Linux, Dapper Drake Flight 7 - How Linux is getting very
> close to mass adoption"
>
> http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2006/05/ubuntu_linux_dapper.html
>
>
> The good and  bads points of his attempt to use Dapper on his Tablet
> PC.   But what's interesting near the end is that he lists things that
> didn't work for him for Dapper, and for Vista (beta) and concludes
> that Dapper is actually ahead of Vista on his hardware.
>
>