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[News] GNU/Linux Laptops Proving Disruptive for Windows-era OEMs

  • Subject: [News] GNU/Linux Laptops Proving Disruptive for Windows-era OEMs
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:47:38 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Sony leery of the Eee PC?

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| If the Eee PC just catches on with Linux developers, enthusiasts, and the 
| tech-savvy early adopter crowd, that's fine by him. "But if mainstream buyers 
| buy it, then, whoa," Abary said.  
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9879798-7.html?tag=newsmap

Even Acer has recently decided to enter this low-end laptops market.


Related:

Linux is about to take over the low end of PCs

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| Opinion -- Sometimes, several unrelated changes come to a head at the same 
| time, with a result no one could have predicted. The PC market is at such a 
| tipping point right now and the result will be millions of Linux-powered PCs 
| in users' hands.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| Microsoft will fight this trend tooth and nail. It will cut prices to the 
| point where it'll be bleeding ink on some of its product lines. And Windows 
| XP is going to stick around much longer than Microsoft ever wanted it to. 
| Still, it won't be enough. By attacking from the bottom, where Microsoft can 
| no longer successfully compete, Linux will finally cut itself a large slice 
| of the desktop market pie.      
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2414535067.html


Small Linux Roundup

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| I was really blown away. Who knew you could fit so much in an old machine? 
| Like DSL it had everything you need. But in addition everything worked out of 
| the box, and what was really neat is SeaMonkey came with Flash9 installed. I 
| could watch YouTube and even DVD’s (although some I tried didn’t work.)   
| 
| I ended up sticking with Puppy on a laptop install. Before I installed I used 
| Puppy and the mount tool to copy all the existing files off the computer. 
| These I burned onto a DVD and gave back to it’s owner. I then installed to 
| hard drive and after a bit of tweaking it was a brand new computer. I could 
| play music and even Super Nintendo games after I found the .pup file online.    
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http://www.wmtoolbox.com/tools/small-linux-roundup/

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