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ARM, x86 duel in MID warfare
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| In ABI's first report based on its UMD research, focusing on MIDs, ABI
| forecast that by 2013, MIDs will outsell netbooks, and that Linux will take
| the "lion's share" of the market, selling 86 million devices that year. The
| Linux MID segment will primarily be limited to three platforms, said ABI,
| with the Intel-sponsored Moblin. leading with 42 percent. Next in line, the
| group projected, will come Maemo, which runs on Nokia's Internet Tablets,
| including the N810 (pictured). The N810 uses an ARM-based Texas Instruments
| (TI) OMAP 2420, and next year Nokia will release a new Maemo-5-based tablet
| that runs on TI's more powerful ARM Cortex-A8-based OMAP3x processor. The
| LiMo Foundation's mobile-phone oriented LiMo Platform, was pegged as coming
| in third in MID software.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3593004513.html?kc=rss
Top 10 Open Source Stories Of 2008
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| Linux-powered and budget-priced, the ASUS Eee PC and its successors proved
| that you didn't need a full-blown notebook computer to get work done. A
| netbook gets you Internet connectivity, word processing, and a slew of other
| common tasks -- all in a machine that cost around $350 or so. Even if later
| models of the Eee and other netbooks came with Windows XP as an option, that
| wasn't enough to kill the buzz for inexpensive Linux-powered devices.
| Netbooks also proved to be a better bet than Linux-powered desktop PCs at the
| same price point: why pay the same for a machine that doesn't even come with
| a display?
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212300206&subSection=Development
http://tinyurl.com/722puu
Related:
How will Linux win the OS wars? From the bottom up!
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| So therefore, best way to win the war of the operating systems is not to go
| after the high end market.
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=352
Low-cost laptops make PC makers mull margins
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| “Computers have been an exception. If you look at consumer electronics, a DVD
| player was about $800 10 years ago – now they sell for $20,” she says. “The
| [computer] industry has been able to keep the price flat by focusing on
| gazillion-gigahertz machines running really bloated software and that’s
| worked for years since the IBM PC revolution.”
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| OLPC found a strong uptake for a “give one, get one” campaign it launched in
| North America in November. It discovered consumers were willing to pay $400
| for an XO – the price meant another XO would be given free to a
| developing-world child. It is now launching OLPC America to extend the cheap
| laptop concept for children in the US.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cfba14f4-cf64-11dc-854a-0000779fd2ac.html
Linux Has Won, Windows is Gone
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| Sorry Windows you have already lost this battle. There is no way to reverse
| this and no amount of incentives that Microsoft can offer to convince people
| and governments that they will be safe if they switch back to Windows. Lets
| be honest here for a moment. Would your trust America's nuclear technologies
| to be run on Windows? What happens when it bluescreens, yeah you get my point
| don't you?
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http://linuxhow2.com/News/Linux_Has_Won_Windows_is_Gone.html
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