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OEMs Looking to Ubuntu for Netbook Market
Anon writes "Mark Shuttleworth provides much more detail today about development of the Ubuntu netbook platform, and says OEMs are calling Canonical when they want to start building netbooks. Channelweb notes: 'It's actually a big deal. For example, Dell CEO Michael Dell has been carrying around an early version of a Dell mini-notebook, and referring to it as the device for the next billion Internet users [...] Asus has become an industry rock star by using GNU Linux to power its Eee PC. HP's niche Mini note runs SLED 10 Linux. The iPhone, of course, doesn't run Microsoft software. Is anyone paying attention in Redmond?'"
It's the PHP of linux distros!
Finally! we can all rest and exhale. 2008 is at last the year of netbook Linux. What took so long? Oh yeah, finding a niche where nobody expects high-quality professional software. Students and people from developing countries: get in line now. For the rest of you, when you're done playing with your netbooks and want to graduate to Photoshop, Office, Apache, desktop publishing, and software engineering, then give full-scale Linux, Windows, and MacOS a call.
How old are you, kid? When you say there are those who want to *use their computer*, are you referring to those of us who want to use full desktop applications, like word processors, Matlab, Powerpoint, Photoshop, g++, video games, and Maya? Will be able to *use our computers* on these netbooks? Or do you think the only thing we can do is surf the web looking for lulz? Grow up.
What kind of ignorant semi-question is that?
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
you must be a real moron if you think that hp pays 100 bucks a copy for windows. as if they'd lower the price that much even if it did.
just goes to show that linux lemmings have little hold on business concepts.
or maybe it's more that the lemmings are so stupid as to think the hp cares if linux takes over the market. they're fickle and they'll go the way of profit. for them it's not a battle of linux versus microsoft. it's a simple matter of making money. your little religious crusade doesn't interest them.
And we expect anything great from the stupid country whose moorons let their government disarm everyone, thus initializing the full-scale free-fall back to feudalism or worse? Australia is over, ya just don't know it yet - you gave up your ability to fight back against heavy-handed governments. Y'all be dipshitts I tell yuh.
Yeah, me too. Fuck that Ghandi. Motherfucking quitter. Nothing but a goddamn whiner.