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Re: Linux certified Hardware - Was: [a bit off topic] Video Cards andXFree86
Ira Abramov - Scalable Solutions writes:
> > I'll have to be a "me too"er. (For me it was CD-R media. First they
> > tried to convince, and then to prove (!), that standard shitty green
> > TDK blanks are gold-plated. I *know* that the reflective layer is
> > golden, that's the way it is in all the media. Gold-plated is
> > something else altogether. Idiots.)
>
> while off-topic, let me just add that TDK medias are some of the worst
> out there. I've tested a few brands on my new Plextor CD-R (8x, gotta
> love it) under both windows and Linux, CDDA and data, DAO and
> multisession. the only medias that ever gave me problems here were TDK,
> and so I'm sticking to $1 namesless medias, the kind that comes on a
> spindle in a batch of 50... paying anything higher, other than for 80
> minute (700 meg) medias, is totally unjustified.
Still while off-topic, I'll add that TDK blue media has yet to do even
*one* problem for me, while nameless media has never been successful
for me. I guess it depends on the type of the writer. (Mine is a
year-old Sony CDU-926S.)
> now to get the thread back on-topic: do people on this list think there
> is a market for a Linux-only hardware vendor? I mean, will a business in
> the image of VA-Research or Penguin Computing be able to bring home the
> bacon^H^H^H^H^HGefilte Fish?
If you're talking about Israel, I think that it's a great idea. I know
that we don't buy Linux servers for our college mostly because of the
support problem -- while we can get support for Sun systems it's hard
to get hardware and software support for Linux.
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