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Real-Life Linux: The ASUS Eee PC 1000
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| The no-maintenance part was also important. Unlike any Windows machine, which
| requires monthly -- or even more frequent security updates -- to even pretend
| to be safe, not to mention added-cost and trouble anti-virus and anti-malware
| software, Linux has security baked-in.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/152822/asus_eee_pc_1000_linux.html?tk=rss_news
Portability is not Vista's strength, to say the very least.
In Search of the Smartphone Laptop
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| Palm inventor Jeff Hawkins tried to solve this problem last year by proposing
| the Palm Foleo, a Linux-based mini-laptop that would have connected to the
| Internet via a Bluetooth-connected Palm smart phone. And what did he get for
| his trouble? Scorn and ridicule.
|
| The Foleo had its own processor and memory, as well as generic office
| applications, browser software and e-mail application. It was an "instant-on"
| device usable seconds after being switched on.
|
| The Foleo was roundly criticized for being too expensive ($499) and too
| inflexibly dependent on the use of a Palm phone while at the same time unable
| to actually run Palm applications.
|
| Palm retreated in shame, burying the project while at the same time promising
| to resurrect it someday. We'll see.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/152810/smartphone_laptop.html?tk=rss_news
Recent:
The netbook newbie's guide to Linux
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| Thanks to their design as appliances, you can get down to useful work
| straight away with any of the new breed of Linux-based netbooks. But sooner
| or later, a fair few folk come up against the unfamiliarity of Linux. And,
| like the legendary tribe of pygmies, you may find yourself jumping up and
| down in the head-high long grass shouting out the incantation that gave the
| tribe its name: "We're the Fukarwi."
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/10/17/netbook_linux_guide_1/
Microsoft worried over Linux ULPCs
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| An un-named Microsoft official quoted in the original article claims that
| manufacturers currently offering Linux on their low-cost devices “have made
| some good inroads with open-source, and Microsoft wants to put a stop to it.”
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http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/05/12/microsoft-worried-over-linux-ulpcs/1
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| 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
Otellini: 'MID revolution will be centred round Linux'
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| Intel CEO says Microsoft's insistence on pushing Vista will hand market to
| open source rival
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| Intel's CEO has said that he sees the revolution that is about to happen
| around mobile internet devices (MID) such as the Eee PC and other Atom-based
| sub-notebooks will be "centred round Linux", in an interview with Associated
| Press.
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http://www.pcretailmag.com/news/29939/Otellini-MID-revolution-will-be-centred-round-Linux
Acer bets big on Linux
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| Acer has stated that it will be pushing Linux aggressively on its laptops and
| netbooks.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2218172/acer-pushes-linux-hard
Microsoft sees slide in profits
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7366106.stm
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