Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 219.82.185.26]
on December 14, 2007 05:49 AM
Just bought a laptop in china with red flag installed for a friend.
When you start the computer, it leaves you in a simple terminal, no X server, no openoffice, no kde, no gnome, nothing for the desktop user.
The vendor don't even know how to run the red flag OS installed, it is routine for them to install XP after the laptop is sold.
Everybody buying these machines ask to the vendor for XP and the vendor will gladly install a pirated version with SP2, windows office, photoshop and everything else you need.
To make everything look worse, i have been unabled to install any of the easy linux distributions on that laptop (ubuntu, opensuse, pclinuxos, mandriva, and so on...)
"According to CCW Research, 31.9% of Chinese users uninstall their Linux desktop OS after buying a computer with it included.", i'm working for a professionnal Research company, but i'm spending a fair amount of time in the computer markets around and i can't believe such figure.
For info, the laptop is an asus turion i don't remember the number.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 219.82.185.26] on December 14, 2007 05:49 AMWhen you start the computer, it leaves you in a simple terminal, no X server, no openoffice, no kde, no gnome, nothing for the desktop user.
The vendor don't even know how to run the red flag OS installed, it is routine for them to install XP after the laptop is sold.
Everybody buying these machines ask to the vendor for XP and the vendor will gladly install a pirated version with SP2, windows office, photoshop and everything else you need.
To make everything look worse, i have been unabled to install any of the easy linux distributions on that laptop (ubuntu, opensuse, pclinuxos, mandriva, and so on...)
"According to CCW Research, 31.9% of Chinese users uninstall their Linux desktop OS after buying a computer with it included.", i'm working for a professionnal Research company, but i'm spending a fair amount of time in the computer markets around and i can't believe such figure.
For info, the laptop is an asus turion i don't remember the number.
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