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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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