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____/ GreyCloud on Friday 29 May 2009 03:50 : \____
> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> http://blogs.computerworld.com/here_comes_summers_first_linux_netbook
>>
>> Reports of the Linux netbook's death at the hands of Microsoft have been
>> greatly exaggerated. A flood of Linux netbook news will be made next week
>> at the Computex trade show in Taiwan, but, after Intel announced the beta
>> of Moblin 2, HP has decided not to wait and made an important Linux
>> netbook announcement this week.
>>
>> HP announced that it was releasing a new netbook, the HP Mini 110, that
>> runs Ubuntu Linux 8.04 with HP's easy to use Mi (Mobile internet) desktop
>> interface. It will also be available with XP Home, but, for once, the
>> Linux powered model looks to be the more compelling buy even if you don't
>> care for Linux.
>>
>> . . .
>>
>> In addition, and this is important, on the XP system your only choice in
>> memory is 1GB of RAM. If you go with Linux, though, you can have up to
>> 2GBs.
>>
>> Why? Because Microsoft won't let vendors run XP Home, or Windows 7,on
>> netbooks with more than 1GB of RAM. This mistake is going to bite
>> Microsoft in the rump.
>>
>
> I checked out HPs website on these netbooks with Linux preinstalled.
> Unfortunately,
> the cli is disabled. ???
You can install another distro as an advanced user.
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