Sounds like a great plan, lets hope those of us that want to run our choice of distro can stay with Asus. I've been using Asus in my personal machines since 97 and they are as stable as a 400lb welfare Mom in line for free cheese.
On May 16, 7:18 pm, Leonard The Committed <leothec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like a great plan, lets hope those of us that want to run our > choice of distro can stay with Asus. I've been using Asus in my personal > machines since 97 and they are as stable as a 400lb welfare Mom in line > for free cheese.
Keep in mind though that even if Asus provided some source code for the built-in Linux, that doesn't mean the object files in the motherboard's flash memory correspond. They could potentially put spyware in there and you don't know that it's truly safe until you inspect the code and more importantly compile and install it yourself.
As an example, what if someone at DeviceVM, which makes the distro, is highly pro-China and decides to prevent the embedded Firefox from loading to a pro-Tibet website?
What's needed really is for Linux partisans to replicate what DeviceVM has done.
Not to be prude bot you guy as a re way behind the roller furling jib on this one as I have already read the What They're Using Michael Anti and His Eee PC pg 16 MAY 2008 Issue 169 Linux Journal.
Oh the joys of being hated by your mother for being a pack rat ingeneral
