First look at ASUS Eee PC 900
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| I've found the look and feel of the default desktop, with its
| easy-to-navigate tabbed interface (powered by IceWM), very usable and up
| until now I haven't felt a very strong urge to hack it into something more
| Linux-like or to replace it with a different distribution. But I know that
| it's just a matter of time before I start tinkering (I've already looked
| through EeeUser.com Wiki pages for some information about tweaking the
| desktop into something more powerful). Once that happens, I'll duly report
| about it here, but in the meantime, I am quite happy to stay with whatever
| the new Eee PC came with.
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| For the next few weeks I am planning to dig deeper into the Eee PC 900,
| focusing first on tweaking Xandros Desktop into a more powerful system and
| later trying out different distributions that are known to work on the
| laptop. Mandriva Linux 2008.1 is reportedly designed to work on the machine
| out of the box, while many other projects, such as eeeDora, eeeXubuntu,
| PuppEee, Debian EeeOS and others exist in order to develop custom solutions
| for the laptop.
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080428#feature
Recent:
Asus launches second-gen Eee PC
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| The 20GB model will come with Linux, Asus said, while the 12GB version will
| be pre-loaded with Windows XP Home Edition.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/16/asus_launches_eee_900/
Related:
2007's most important IT lesson is spelled with an Eee
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| The Eee shows too just how out of date the 'is Linux ready for the desktop?'
| argument is. Yes it is. Anyone can pick up an Eee with its standard Linux
| distro - or with a number of freely available alternatives - and just use it.
| That alone revitalises the 'is this paid-for operating system value for
| money?' question.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006830o-2000331777b,00.htm?new_comment
Microsoft can't even give it away
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| To sweeten the pill, there is also a considerable price incentive in buying a
| basic portable with GNU/Linux installed as opposed to one with Windows XP,
| which not only costs about 30 per cent more, but also has the nerve to
| require more storage space and memory.
| Firefox.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/11/microsoft-give-away
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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