WSJ - Mossberg disses Linux

[Robin Laing]

Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> 
>> I encourage Fedora, and other distro, users to take a crack at the
>> WSJ-reading establishment and their chief spear-carrier. Email (publicly
>> available) is mossberg at wsj.com.
> 
> You failed to give a link to the article:
> 
> http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118661730994292374.html
> 
> We learn here the box is a monthly fee walled garden: "The biggest catch
> is that the Zonbu computer doesn't include a hard disk for storing files
> (that's one reason it uses so little energy). Instead, all of your files
> are stored online on the company's servers. That offers several
> advantages, such as the fact that the files are automatically backed
> up.".  So I wouldn't recommend this box to anyone either.
> 
> The review seemed pretty fair and willing to concede good things about
> the box, but he was killed by too weak a CPU and apps (he says they are
> 'beta') that didn't quite do what they claimed.
> 
> So I don't see anything to complain about to this guy, on the contrary
> he seems to have done a nice job.
> 
> -Andy
> 

Thanks for the link.

I read the review and I have to agree that the review is balanced.  I 
did look at Mossberg's web site and he does answer a question as to why 
he doesn't recommend Linux.  Basically it is to hard to use and install. 
  I guess he hasn't had to install Windows on some machines.  ;)


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