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Windows 7 review â from a Free Software activist
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| KDE, GNOME and Mac OS X handle this much better. On KDE and GNOME the screen
| darkens around a password entry dialog, and the dialog is modal, so the user
| cannot escape and must make a conscious decision.
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| [...]
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| Windows 7 is neither overly powerful, customizable or modern. It does avoid
| many of the problems of Windows Vista by introducing aggressive prefetching
| and changing the UI design so actions require less clicks, and this makes
| the system appear faster. This comes at the expense of chewing up a lot of
| RAM, so a gaming system should probably have 4 GB or more.
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http://blogs.fsfe.org/rca/?p=21
Recent:
Choosing the Right Linux Netbook + Why You Should Avoid Windows 7
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| Linux distro:
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| What's good about Linux is that you have plenty of flavors to choose
| from. The most widely used distros on netbooks are Xandros, SUSE,
| Linpus, and Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Each of them has different features so
| I recommend picking the one that you are comfortable with. Donât worry;
| Linux is as easy as using Windows these days.
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| Why You Should Avoid Windows 7:
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| With all the positive reviews that I've read about Windows 7, I still
| want you stay away from it if you are planning to buy a netbook. Why?
| Though it's a trimmed-down version of Vista, it is still a resource hog.
| Like, its minimum recommended RAM requirement is 1 GB.
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http://www.junauza.com/2009/09/choosing-right-linux-netbook-and-why.html
Netbooks? Oh Yes, They Are Enterprise Grade
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| Think about it. The old, small Sony Vaios (like my old Sony Vaio
| Picturebook) were netbooks in every way but name. Sony sees itself as
| one of the pioneers of netbooks, but one that gets little or no credit
| for it. So out of spite they refuse to use the term to describe their
| netbooks.
|
| But whatever you call them, there are definitely netbooks out there that
| are enterprise ready.
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http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/comment/netbooks--oh-yes--they-are-enterprise-grade-1802
Netbook OSes: Which will rule the enterprise?
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| Netbooks is a "category with legs," says Stephen O'Grady, an analyst
| with Seattle-based consultancy RedMonk, pointing to recent market
| activity as an indicator of the netbook's viability. Most obvious, he
| says, is Google's decision to build a separate Linux-based operating
| system -- Chrome OS -- specifically for netbooks. Meantime, Microsoft is
| grappling with "hard questions about its OS pricing relative to
| netbooks," and virtually every major hardware maker, apart from Apple
| Inc., has an offering in the category.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137773/Netbook_OSes_Which_will_rule_the_enterprise_
Windows 7 Starter Edition Is Too Wimpy for New Netbooks
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| Given Starter Editionâs lameness, youâd think that netbook vendors might shun
| it and install Windows 7 Home Premium instead. Not so. Samsung says its Go
| netbook will ship with SE, starting in November. Nokiaâs Win 7 plans are
| fuzzy at this point. And Dell recently told me that its netbooks will
| continue to offer a variety of OS options, including âUbuntu and
| Windows-based editions.â
|
| Somethingâs fishy here. Itâs not as if the entire genre of netbooks is too
| wimpy to run Windows 7 Home Premium. If that were the case, Microsoft would
| have announced recently that Win 7 SE users will be able to upgrade to Home
| Premium for $80. Rather, this is about Microsoftâs desire to cripple the
| netbook category and upsell consumers to Home Premium.
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| Sadly, many buyers will shell out $400 or so for a reasonably-powered netbook
| with a 10-inch display, only to learn theyâve been saddled with a feeble
| version of Windows 7. A classic bait-and-switch? It sure looks that way. Itâs
| also a recipe for consumer ire. Nobody wants to pay a fairly significant sum
| for a consumer electronics device, only to learn they must pay an additional
| $80 for features they were expecting.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/170701/windows_7_starter_edition_is_too_wimpy_for_new_netbooks.html
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