Acer Bets Big On Linux

Stony Stevenson writes to tell us IT News is reporting that Acer is betting big on Linux, looking to push Tux on many of their upcoming laptops and netbooks. "The company is already heavily promoting Linux for its low cost ultra-portable netbook range out later this year, but senior staff have said that Acer will also push Linux on its laptops. [...] Acer sees two killer apps with Linux on computers: operation and cost. Its flavour of Linux will boot in 15 seconds compared to minutes for Windows, and the open source operating system can extend battery life from five to seven hours."

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Re:Operation and Cost?

[jasonmanley]

I disagree with your sig. Who were the good guys in WW2 and who were the bad guys? What Hitler did in the 30's and 40's is just what other nations had done before and since (including the Bristish and Americans) to other nations, and who stopped them? You say that 'war' ended the Nazi movement, but what replaced it? Ended slavery? Maybe it ended one form of it in America, but even Africans had slaves before they were slaves themselves. I'm not saying it's right, I 'm just speaking aganst the blanket statement of yur sig. Anyway I could go on but I don't really want to.