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RE: A new front opened to the linux community.
- To: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>
- Subject: RE: A new front opened to the linux community.
- From: "Tzahi Fadida" <muaddib(at-nospam)mailandnews.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:55:22 +0200
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I don't want to make it an argument, but as i said, the average joe just want to browse and chat, and u don't need a hires screen for that, though if u don't know the american standard tvs are already hires.
anyways, it doesn't matter. whats matters is that in the not so far future, if you want to buy your little brother/sister a present and you have to decide whether its a gaming box or a general purpose pc, you can buy a CHEAP middle ground.
I give a big THUMBS UP for the initiative.
p.s: and yes, you already have a modem for playstation, and a mouse/keyboard extension exists, its just not common. i hope this new initiative will make it so.
Because we are tired by this race for faster computers when all we want is Usability.
Hey Wintel, LEAVE OUR MONEY ALONE :)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nadav Har'El [mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 1:48 PM
To: Tzahi Fadida
Cc: linux-il@linux.org.il
Subject: Re: A new front opened to the linux community.
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001, Tzahi Fadida wrote about "A new front opened to the linux community.":
> http://news.walla.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=item&path=4&id=130958
> Very good news to the linux community. playstation will release their
> boxes with the ability to run linux on them. why the hell will you need
> a 4k+ pc when u can buy a 2k- playstation where you can play games and run linux applications?
> I mean, the average joe don't need a full blown pc. they usually want to chat browse and use a wordprocessor.
> Also, as some of you have noticed, most private people buy pcs because they want to play games, and they install windows because it runs 99.9% of the games.
Does Playstation have a keyboard? A mouse? A high-resolution display?
If the answers to these questions are "no" (frankly, I don't know), than just
how exactly will you use Linux on it *conveniently*?
> The walls are indeed closing in on The WinTel conspiracy :).
It seems to me that Linux is only helping the Intel monopoly... Before
Linux, people that needed good, strong, stable computers and for which Windows
were not a good option, bought workstations from companies like Sun, Digital,
HP, SGI, and so on. Now more and more people are replacing these expensive
solutions by cheaper Linux-on-PC solutions. Digital's Alpha-based computers
will (according to rumors) go the way of the dodo soon (if it didn't already
happen), and the rest may soon follow :(
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