From: /m 

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:20:01 -0400, "Gary Britt"
 wrote:

>You know reading the multitude of threads springing up suddenly about doing
>things with Linux and it makes me wonder if its ready for mass desktop use,
>even now after many years of steady improvement.  Theses messages make it
>clear there are many secret command line incantations that one must know to
>do many things.
>
>On the other hand I read something about Damn Small Linux the other day, and
>it sounds like it will install on my old Pentium 233 laptop with 4 gig hard
>drive.  I'm going to install it to give it a go.
>
>I watched that most impressive XGL (whatever that is) Suse 10.1 linux video.
>Definitely impressive stuff.  Most of it unneeded fluff but impressive none
>the less.  Then I read somebody's comment that XGL doesn't work with NVidia
>or ATI video cards in a default install and you have to get drivers and
>recompile the kernel etc. to make it work.  Gee, the two most popular video
>chipsets in the world and it doesn't support them out of the box in a
>default configuration.   That kind of stuff has got to improve for Linux to
>conquer the world, even given the WGA and Vista Op Sys trojans.


Wireless support is very weak as well.

 /m

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