Peter St. John wrote:
While looking around for a laptop I discovered that MS is paying Google
for the keyword "linux" to point to a "Get the Facts!" page (reminds me
of TheTruth.com) with testomonials about why MS is better than Linux for
clustering (!). What struck me was that I wasn't googling "linux
cluster" but just "linux notebook", yet the page is about MS
cluster installations at research facilitites.
Heh... I notice lots of MSFT adverts on Linux Mag and other sites.
The ad is http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/facts/default.mspx?R=cf
The testamonials all seem to be equivalent to "I"m a PhD in Rocket
Science but setting up a Linux Cluster is too complex, so using MS saves
Yeah, well ...
me time to do Rocket Science". None of them mention if their MS clusters
were in any way subsidized by MS. Also, I assume that essentially they
Lets ask CTC, UIUC and others.
are paying their vendor to do the setup & support, and they don't say if
that compares economically to, say, paying Joe to do that, only that it
saves them time themselves. Sure, if I had that budget, I'd pay Joe and
RGB to come and work for me and I would have more time for other things.
Be all that as it may, I"m wondering what laptop to get. There are two
issues: one, that it used to be scary to get all the device drivers for
linux (maybe not anymore); and two, that one would prefer not to pay the
tax associated with the disk manufacturer contracting to preinstall
Vista etc. Toshiba, which used to be a fair linux platform IIRC,
promotes itself as the Premier Vista Notebook now (understandably).
FWIW: We happily run Linux (SuSE, RHEL/Centos, Ubuntu) on our HP
Pavilion laptops. I try to stick with the nVidia chip sets, I have
never had good luck with ATI.
A fair number of our customers have asked us to look into Linux desktops
(and we sold a pair very recently, nice units ... ). Haven't had
requests for Linux laptops yet, though it would be fun.
I ran into http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lc2100.html via a
couple routes but of course it's a no-frills site, dunno what it wouuld
be like to find/get accessories etc. Anyone want to pitch me their
laptop favorite?
I installed Feisty Fawn on HP Pavilion, IBM T60p, and many others.
Joe
Thanks,
Peter
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