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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?'"
See, I told you soo; 2008 is the year of linux on the desktop. For real this time.
Maybe a new name would be best?
:p
How about "Tux & Friends" ?
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
I'm referring to those who want to do the basics - e-mail, WWW, maybe some light word processing - on the go.
Does that clarify, Daddy? =p
P.S. lolsauce on the age factor remarks. How petty of someone to assume that people of a certain age group all think a certain way.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Funny, I write graphics accelerated visuo-motor psychology experiments and collect data using Python, do data analysis in R, and write papers/presentations in LaTeX, all using less of a computer than those netbooks (when I don't feel like being chained to my workstation).
Maybe you are the one who needs to *grow up* and get over the *clickety clickety* toy software.
see how fun pointless insults are?
Oh yeah, get off my lawn!
"Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns" -Journal of Political Econom
...then you are murdered.
What you do with a computer does not constitute the whole of computing.
Lets apply that logic to, say, other operating systems:
- Mhac Oh Ess Ecks
- Wendoze Mee
- BeOhss
- Windows Ultimate Venti Burrito Triple Shot FTW!!!110#cough
Good. Cheap. Fast. Pick Two.
GNU/Linux is the new term to use over a bad breakup. Instead of the tired ol'
I faked every one of them!
you can say
And it's GNU/Linux!
then you storm out and slam the door. Can be used with soon-to-be ex-girlfriends and/or soon-to-be ex-bosses. Can be preceded with the phrase "And another thing:", which is more effective when spoken quite emphatically.
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
Why do you think the Gates Foundation has sold so much Microsoft stock?
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It reminds me of when I was a young little shit-ling arguing over whether that megaman X game was "megaman ten" or "megaman-ex". Then megaman X-2 came out. That's when I decided that I will set afire every marketing co-worker I meet.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you start quoting Gandhi to feel better about yourself."
Yeah-- These guys
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=office+chairs+in+redmond,+wa&ie=UTF8&z=12
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Save your personal attacks: I'm not the moderator, and the post was never intended for an "insightful". At all. I had just spent seven hours doing full Windows re-installs on a server pool so, frankly, I was a little anti-Microsoft.
Really usefull, a poll on a Linux biased site asking their visitors what they're running on their eeePC.
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