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[News] Virtualisation and Web Elevate Linux, Make Windows Obsolete

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The biggest open source threat to Microsoft

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| Virtualization makes your underlying operating environment irrelevant. It has 
| to make its case based solely on performance. 
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| Windows can’t win that fight. Linux is more modular, it has a longer history, 
| it’s more efficient with system resources. That’s why it’s so strong in the 
| server market.  
| 
| Sure, in theory you could do a complete rewrite of Windows, using 
| virtualization to achieve the backward-compatibility which has been 
| Microsoft’s alpha-and-omega, and which has become the anchor holding it down.  
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2789

The End Of the OS As We Know It

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| There is a shift going on. There is a migration of margin in software sales, 
| there is a migration of user attention from the OS to what you can do with 
| the OS. But don’t forget there has to be an OS running all those apps people 
| are accessing through a browser. See my list above — Google, Amazon, Ebay, 
| Flickr, Facebook — all running Linux. In the history of evolution, those 
| species most adaptable survive and thrive.     
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http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/2008/08/15/the-end-of-the-os-as-we-know-it/


Recent:

Inside Dell's 'BlackTop' laptop Linux OS

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| Dell’s new laptops sideline Windows with a fast-boot Linux OS and ARM
| processor to check email, browse the Web and even sync with Exchange.
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http://apcmag.com/Content.aspx?id=2804


Dell introduces ten new laptops

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| On is a flash-based barebones Linux install that gets you up and running, on
| the Net, and with much of what you need to run the computer in instantly.
| Dell went to great pains to avoid saying the L-word though, it might anger
| the very touchy gods atop mount Redmond.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/13/dell-introduces-laptops


Are “instant on” notebooks the future?

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| If I think about my normal notebook usage patterns, I’m pretty sure I could
| spend a good 80 - 90% of my time in the instant on environment and only boot
| into Windows when I needed to do something specifically Windows-centric. In
| fact, given a properly set up Linux distro as the main OS (which should be a
| snap to set up since these systems would/should already be Linux-compatible
| because they are running the Linux-based instant on OS ) which would allow me
| to handle Microsoft Office docs, and a VPN, I could do away with having
| Windows on the system altogether and simply connect to a secondary
| Windows-based PC when I wanted that functionality (when on the road I rarely,
| if ever, need to run anything heavy such as Photoshop).
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2400


Dell’s comeback machine

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| There are some surprises beneath the surface of the Latitude line as well.
| One is an optional Linux-based low-power mode called Dell Latitude On, which
| boots in two seconds. It offers more than a day’s worth of battery life for
| basic tasks like web surfing, Exchange e-mail, and viewing e-mail
| attachments, and runs on an ARM-based (ARMH) chip rather than the main Intel
| processor. (HP and Lenovo laptops offer similar Linux modes, but with fewer
| capabilities.)
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http://bigtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/08/12/dells-comeback-machine/
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