OSNews Thread "Comment by merkoth" by merkoth

Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Wed 18th Mar 2009 23:54 UTC According to a Novel-sponsored IDC survey, Linux seems to be gaining popularity among businesses implementing servers, and it has a bright outlook for both server and desktop installations in the coming future. On the other hand, netbooks have seen less and less default OEM installations of Linux.

Windows now has over 90 percent of netbook sales, quashing any hopes of an open source revolution in the form of netbooks. Android, however, may be able to change things. Comment by merkoth by merkoth on Thu 19th Mar 2009 04:31 UTC Member since: 2006-09-22 The netbook situation doesn't surprise me at all. Heck, I'm a full time Linux user and I'd gladly buy a Windows netbook just to get better hardware. Moreover, the distros they usually ship with these devices are so ugly and ankward most Linux users wouldn't even touch them..

It's a real shame, netboks were perfect for Linux. I did it myself as well. I would imagine that quite a few linux users were drawn in by the larger traditional hard drives and with a usb CD DVD drive installation is not that complicated for the moderate tech-able person.

Didn't even boot the thing before I plugged-in a USB CD-ROM and installed Xubuntu in its place. I know I'm not the only one. Count me in for my Asus 1000HE. It was the most bang for the buck. It is being delivered today, and my USB flash drive has Ubuntu 9.04 netbook remix ready to go. However, I will be dual-booting for awhile. Eventually I'll give XP the boot after I get everything working under Ubuntu. I had the opposite experience.

You can't buy a windows xp netbook with 2GB RAM. The hardware specs for XP netbooks even mention that the hardware supports a max of 1GB even though it can support 2GB. Take the HP mini note ME for instance that is the only HP netbook with 2GB RAM. 2006-04-21 15:59:23 by schala RE 3 : hahah windows server.

2006-12-13 01:42:25 by tomcat RE 18 : Only Two Choices?