The Linbook Pro

Just a thought. It would be so nice if Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) would also start selling hardware, just like Apple does, offering a few laptop models with its own Ubuntu OS preinstalled on it, offering a complete package. No more hardware compatibility issues, it would just work, like Apple promises, only even better!

 

But - if they did that, then they'd probably go the way that Apple did. Apple OS is the least hardware friendly of any variety, really.

I like the fact that Ubuntu runs on 99% of hardware. Means it can come with me, no matter what notebook I may choose next.

 

I think it's against Canonical policy to SELL anything. They charge for ShipIT (LTS) discs to certain countries, and they charge shipping for non-LTS supported discs. That's to cover their shipping costs.

I'm not saying that its not feasible or that Canonical is non-profit. I just think it would break their objective(s).

 

Well, aparently Apple has put restrictions in its OS that prevents it from running on non Apple hardware. I'm not sure if Canonical would be allowed to do that, I would think not. But it would not be in their intrest anyway.

I'm always happy to read optimistic forecasts about installing linux on hardware. But when I search for particular hardware like a laptop model, I often see people have problems getting one or other component to work. Sometimes you need to patch the kernel, compile no longer maintained drivers to be downloaded from unknown locations, etc... Sometimes it just doesn't work at all.

So far I've not some across a laptop yet where everything just works out of the box. Even thinkpads have hardware features that do not work with Linux.

 

http://www.system76.com 'nuff said.