The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>
>
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
><newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:13:02 +0000
><1376615.TfgOcAFaiW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Wednesday 10 December 2008 16:48 : \____
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>>>
>>>
>>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Mark Kent belched out
>>> this bit o' wisdom:
>>>
>>>> High Plains Thumper <highplainsthumper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>
>>>>> I look with excitement to the ARM RISC based netbooks, with are
>>>>> currently Microsoft incompatible but Linux ready.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mei Linux bloeit!
>>>>
>>>> I might put it like this... Microsft are ARM-netbook incompatible, but
>>>> if they want to write a port, they are welcome to try...
>>>
>>> Nah, they've already put <snigger> Win CE on ARM netbooks.
>>
>> Win CE is failing badly in embedded. Linux eats its lunch and CE is not a
>> priority right now.
>
> http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS8138570394.html
> (dated 2008-10-23)
> suggests that Windows XP can run on netbooks if they use
> x86-compatible processors such as Intel's A110 or Atom,
> and that ARM cores will have to run Windows Mobile,
> Windows CE, or Linux.
>
> Linux is arguably the most robust, but I suspect Windows
> Mobile is the most likely to succeed, mostly because the
> public apparently has, for better or for worse, associated
> the term "computer" with the term "Microsoft Windows", and
> netbooks are computers, though for some reason mobile
> phones are not [*]. (Arrgh....)
>
> It's all perception.
It's a very interesting point, and I wonder if the new generations of
linux-based netbooks might start to address that, or perhaps, as people
starting using Android as the "affordable and open iPhone", then perhaps
perceptions of what a suitable device really is will change.
I still see Linux coming up from the mobility space as the start-point.
>
> Of course Linux is almost ready to jump into the ARM
> market; the main thing missing would be certain proprietary
> binaries which probably aren't needed anyway, except
> perhaps for an nVidia video driver. Interestingly, ARM (at
> least the ARM9T family; dunno about earlier offerings) can
> be configured either for little or big endian mode, which
> should make it simple to port Windows XP thereon. Maybe.
>
> http://www.arm.com/support/faqip/3662.html
>
> Sad mess, in its way, but the elephant in the room is
> not exactly dead yet. (It does seem to be bleeding from
> a number of spear wounds, though.)
>
> I would hope the Linux netbooks have the ability to boot
> and be ready for use in less than 5 seconds. That would
> probably give Microsoft a big, bad headache.
>
> [.sigsnip]
>
> [*] the Orange phones in particular were laughed at,
> but presumably Windows Mobile has improved some
> since then. Even the simpler Nokia "brick" phones
> of a few years back are mobile computers, though
> modern phones are far more capable, sporting
> web browsers and downloadable applicatins.
>
> (Of course if one is pedantic enough, microwave
> oven controller keypads are part of computers
> too...very simple ones, comparatively speaking.)
>
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