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Asus to release desktop Eee PC as Ebox
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| The Ebox will certainly run the Eee PC's Xandros version of Linux, and come
| bundled with the same line-up of applications.
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| The look of the Ebox is at odds with the design of a slimline home desktop PC
| that Asus demo'd at the CeBit show in March this year. That model,
| the "Digital Home System EP20", was, however, said to run the Eee PC's Linux
| OS.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/23/asus_e_dt_is_ebox/
Bummer. Microsoft hasn't a crippleware/dumpware (XP for $18) program for
anything other than cheap laptops and Vista won't run on this thing.
Add that to tens of millions of ASUS boards that come with GNU/Linux preloaded.
Microsoft can kiss Asus goodbye.
Recent:
Linux is Part of Asus’s Long Term Plan
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| Asus announced three new Linux products.
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| I would even go so far to say that if Asus keeps up its support of Linux, it
| may be the company that is credited with bringing Linux on the desktop to the
| masses.
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http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/02/02/linux-is-part-of-asuss-long-term-plan/
Asus' little Eee 900 laptop is a big improvement over its predecessor
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| When the original Eee PC came out last year, Asus pretty much had the
| ultra-portable laptop market to itself, and the funky little Linux machine
| was a huge hit.
|
| [...]
|
| I tested a Windows XP model to see how much it differed from the original
| Linux model.
|
| I much prefer the Linux.
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/ptech/stories/DN-p2techreview_16bus.ART.State.Edition1.46ae175.html
http://tinyurl.com/5z2nm2
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. 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
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