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?'"

Comments

Re:ASUS Eee PC

[houstonbofh]

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

Microsoft is in the last stage now.

Re:what does this have to do with ubuntu?

[battjt]

My Ubuntu Dell laptop is an open system of open APIs.

My macbook is a closed system of open APIs. (at least I can guess what is going on, even if I can't change it)

My w2k VM is a blackbox. I don't have a clue what it is doing or why or how to change it. (and that's why it is sandboxed in a VM)

Apple is a step better than microsoft from my perspective and it just works where Linux hasn't. It's been a long time of watching Linux develop and my dell ubuntu box still didn't work when I took it out of the box (I had to upgrade to 8.10 and delete the modem driver to get sound and suspend to work.)

Joe