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Elonex ONE Subnotebook Shows Right Path For Linux

davidmwilliams writes "Whether it was to your taste or not, there's no denying the ASUS Eee Linux subnotebook was a massive sales success. Demand far exceeded initial production so it's not surprising competitor models are on their way. Just like the Eee, the Elonex achieves cost savings by bundling freely redistributable open source software including, of course, the Linux operating system (specifically, Linos 2.6.21). Those who use the Elonex ONE may well understand it uses something called Linux under the hood, but they don't really have to grasp what this means. They don't have to care that the WiFi hardware was carefully chosen to be one of the exclusive few which has supported Linux drivers. They don't need to tamper with the way their family computer is already set up."

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  2. How to Become a Household Commodity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How to become a household commodity : driver support for all WiFi hardware, not just an "exclusive few".

    Windows works just fine, quit trying to be different for the sake of being different.

  3. Re:Linos... by jeiler · · Score: 1, Troll
    If RMS wants to see more Linux on the market, he's going to have to get used to people trying to make money from it--and for a lot of people, that means working with some form of proprietary license. If he wants to keep "GLP Purity" as a religious devotion, he can be satisfied that Linux will remain a niche product that a lot of businesses will not support.

    Don't get me wrong--I like Linux, and I support the GPL. But having market share means making compromises.

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  4. WRONG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It is not Via's.

    Name three things that suck about it.

    o it's 300 MHz
    o it's crap
    o it's linux only
    o it's designed by a woman*

    *or a really, really weird guy (like CmdrTaco)

  5. Re:A solid company created distro could be the tic by DeadChobi · · Score: 1, Troll

    How is this insightful? The guy is basically belittling people for making the choice to stick with Windows. He uses diction which is carefully designed to belittle, like "Fischer Price OS." Not only that, he's basically espousing the antithesis of freedom of choice. Someone who truly believed in freedom and choice would say "that's cool, whatever works for you," and not what essentially amounts to "have fun with your child's toy OS, you neolithic sack baby."

    This is the attitude that was turning people off to Linux in the early '00s.

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