Going out of business sale! Buy XP before it's too late!

I just moved my HP laptop to Opensuse 11

OpenSuse 11 works fantastic on my HP Laptop. Much better than the pre-installed Vista. Picked up the sound and network just fine, it even found the built in webcam and TV tuner!

Novell/Suse Linux is HP's Linux partner

Right, I buy HP, I think the keyboards are nice and have read many a great review about them and they have some nice looking computers. UH someone swears Macs are attractive. Please please anyone send me a link of one. I keep seing square, not ugly but nothing really nice looking Mac notebooks.

Anyway back to topic. I bought a tx1000. Google hard, someone out there has your drivers. Yes, HP is possbily going to lose customers with this unless they start offering Suse as an alternative.

Fortunately, didn't ya know, they make all their stuff in CHINA. So, they use the same parts. Unless you brought something totally brand new, like the tx1000 series, then chances are last years version had XP and that means the drivers do exist for what you have.

Suse is their partner, Novell rather so HP's probably do run quite well with Suse.

More Linuxes seem to have good HP support though.

I use sidux or Mandriva. Both support my tx1000 and my older zv5000us series. Both ordered and shipped from US to me overseas cause they cost twice as much in China for less when they're made here...

The XP drivers are out there

The XP drivers are out there but you will have to scrounge for them. The realtek drivers you can find from the realtek site. You can find them... i had to re-image a HP machine last week and there is no XP support/drivers on the web site.

Vista just works!

Well of course Vista works! If you are happy just watching the boot process that goes on until the batteries are just about dead on your laptop, then a few oooooo's and aahhhhh's over the pretty picture on the screen before you shut it down, you will be very happy with Vista. If you think that the proper design of an operating system is similar to a wrecking ball, ie. it crushes your computer to bits, takes everything that it has just to boot, has millions of page faults to show the about box, you will be VERY happy with Vista.
If you have ANY idea that an operating system is NOT an application, and is there to provide basic services for real applications, you will recognize that Vista is TOTAL GARBAGE.

Dan

Monopoly

If a real business had a product that was selling well but they did not want to continue production, they could sell it to another business who was interested. M$ cannot do that because the buyer would be big competition unless M$ were to get out of the OS business. M$ is a monopoly built upon the special relationship to the PC granted by IBM so many years ago. If they sold XP the monopoly would pop.

So, they have to kill XP to preserve the monopoly. I wonder if they will write it off for taxes... XP must be worth billions. Nope. IRS would be crazy to accept that. Deliberately creating a loss is not allowed. One has to try to make money. That is how crazy M$ and dealing with M$ is. A product worth billions must be thrown away because it interferes with the next scheme of the monopoly: keeping prices and turnover of product as high as possible.