Follow-Up On TuxTops

Some of you may remember the TuxTops story concerning their exit from the laptop business. We've heard from QLITech regarding their acquisition of the TuxTops line -- it's good to see someone will still make it. [Update: 02/22 03:08 PM EST by michael : Newsforge has a story. Looks like QLITech will be taking over support of TuxTops' customers as well - good.]

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Linux laptops in Germany

[Hanno]

There are others, too.

Werner Heuser, the author of the Linux Laptop Howto and several other helpful Lapop-related documents about Linux, runs a little business in Germany for Linux-Laptops. You can have a look at www.xtops.de if you're interested.

(I'm not affiliated with Werner, I just contributed parts of the Howto and wrote the old Battery Powered Linux Howto that he took over and rewrote.)

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Re:useful for you?

[Ian Wolf]

But really, I wonder if the cart is coming before the horse in this scenario. Is linux really a reasonable portable operating system.

The answer is yes, but it clearly is a much smaller market than the traditional laptop market as a whole. For one, there are a lot of people out there who work everyday on *nix. Many of those people are certainly more comfortable in Linux than they are in Windows. In fact, I work in a Systems/Database support organization where all the DBA's and SA's have been given laptops w/ docking stations for our everyday use. They all came loaded with WinNT and now every one of the SA's and a couple of the DBA's have loaded some form of Linux on them.
While 24 people may not seem like a lot in the grand scheme, I now that the same thing happened in a very large networking firms engineering departments, and I'm willing to bet there are many more out there.