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"I contacted HP to ask why it had disabled the Linux command line interface. HP offered the following statement from Jonathan Kaye, the Director of Consumer Notebooks at HP:
"The HP Mini 1000 with Mi is designed for the consumer who wants to do the main activities with their computer such as email, browsing the Internet, and chatting without worrying about operating systems or what is inside.
Crippled. Too hard to support by our call centers, will rip most of it out and leave you with a bare bones version of linux. And then we'll copy right it (this is how apple gets startd, you did know that the mac os's area all built on a version of Linux that went it's seperate way many years ago , right ?)
You want Linux , get a disk and install it on an old clunker. Don't depend on these guys.
On the other hand ... you want a cheap lap top , well , as long as it's not your primary computer, it's just for bombing around in you're not doing heavy duty computing or games or anything , a locked down lap top isn't a bad deal.
Just don't make it your only machine.
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