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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Linux Desktop vs Windows 8 Post 302558386 by alister on Friday 23rd of September 2011 12:25:26 PM
Old 09-23-2011
My first impression is that this is a good way to create a market for machines with open firmware. And since such a machine cannot ship with Windows 8, this would mean that alternative operating system enthusiasts will no longer have to pay the Microsoft Windows tax.

Most OEM's load their machines with tons of junk software because their profit margins (unlike Apple's) are tiny, so I doubt that they'd be willing to forego any margin on non-MS machines. You probably wouldn't pay less, but at least your money isn't going to a company whose product you do not intend to use.

Regardless, this does not worry me.

Regards,
Alister

Last edited by alister; 09-23-2011 at 01:39 PM..
 

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RWHO(1) 						    BSD General Commands Manual 						   RWHO(1)

NAME
rwho -- who is logged in on local machines SYNOPSIS
rwho [-a] DESCRIPTION
The rwho command produces output similar to who, but for all machines on the local network. If no report has been received from a machine for 11 minutes then rwho assumes the machine is down, and does not report users last known to be logged into that machine. If a users hasn't typed to the system for a minute or more, then rwho reports this idle time. If a user hasn't typed to the system for an hour or more, then the user will be omitted from the output of rwho unless the -a flag is given. FILES
/var/spool/rwho/whod.* information about other machines SEE ALSO
finger(1), rup(1), ruptime(1), rusers(1), who(1), rwhod(8) HISTORY
The rwho command appeared in 4.3BSD. BUGS
This is unwieldy when the number of machines on the local net is large. Linux NetKit (0.17) August 15, 1999 Linux NetKit (0.17)
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