2001 came and went. Now in 2009, Linux machines are perfectly able to hot swap monitors. It's good to live in the future, isn't it?
I could add Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to the list. By the way, why is this post considered a flamebait?
and I guess this applies to the large majority of netbook manufactures as well. I don't own a netbook, but there are stories all around the Internet about Linux netbooks being shipped with broken distributions that don't even support the netbook's integrated hardware properly. I'm perfectly aware of the fact that Linux doesn't support all hardware in the market, but manufactures have control over the hardware they put in a computer, so this should never happen (as long as they care about it, that is).
Sadly, this netbook Linux story seems to have been just an attempt from computer manufacturers to force Microsoft into compliance. And, as today's story shows, they are being quite successful in their pursue. We can now expect most manufactures to ditch Linux in favor of Windows 7, since MS seems to be bending under their pressure by giving them special Windows 7 pricing.
As long as we're going to reinvent the wheel again, we might as well try making it round this time. - Mike Dennison