[Slugnet] ArsTechnica: Linux-based HP Mini Mi ships with command line disabled

[Maximilian Jackson]

hmmm, maybe their target market is for noobs to the linux world or even for the computing world for that fact.



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From: Soh Kam Yung <sohkamyung at gmail.com>
To: slugnet <slugnet at lugs.org.sg>
Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 9:19:39
Subject: [Slugnet] ArsTechnica: Linux-based HP Mini Mi ships with command line disabled

[http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2009/01/08/hp-introduces-command-line-free-linux-netbook]

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Linux-based HP Mini Mi ships with command line disabled
By Erica Sadun | Published: January 08, 2009 - 03:47PM CT

Yesterday, while looking through the Comdex news feeds, I stumbled
across a Mini Mi 1000 HP product announcement from HP. The Mini Mi
retails from just $329.99 and ships with Mobile Internet, a
"user-friendly, all-inclusive interface built on Linux". What caught
my eye on the product page wasn't the description of the GUI, it was
what followed on the next line. Preceded by "Please note" in bold, the
HP page states "the Linux command line interface is disabled on this
edition."

[...]

I write from a very particular viewpoint: I am, at least as far as
Linux is concerned, almost exclusively a command-line user. For me,
the notion that there could be a Linux distribution without
command-line access sounded strangely like Heresy. And yet, could
there be a greater vote of confidence in the consumer power of Linux
distributions than HP's decision to move forward with this version of
Mobile Internet?

[...]
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