Linux boom?

LMAO. Windows 7 on a netbook. Yeah right. Vista sits on about 1GB of ram used for a clean install with nothing running. Just the OS uses a GB of Ram.

Netbooks will stay with either XP or Linux. Vista and more than likely 7 will be way too resource intensive to even get a show in. Im fully expecting windows 7 to idle at about 1.5GB with a clean install. After all MS are the masters of bloat
 
Yeah great news every lil bit helps and if they can do this before win7 so much the better.
 
Apparently a lot of work has gone into making Windows 7 less resource intensive.

Also, MSI (another Taiwanese hardware manufacuturer) says that it's netbook laptops with Linux installed come back 4 times as much as those with Windows installed.

The purpose of this post is not to cause a stir, but that is what is currently happening with another hardware manufacturer selling Linux netbooks.
 
NetSpike said:
Apparently a lot of work has gone into making Windows 7 less resource intensive.
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More than possible..but highly unlikely

Also, MSI (another Taiwanese hardware manufacuturer) says that it's netbook laptops with Linux installed come back 4 times as much as those with Windows installed.[/QUOTE]

very possible,with a bad implementation of Linux this can easily happen...depends on the interface and what they do with it

NetSpike said:
The purpose of this post is not to cause a stir, but that is what is currently happening with another hardware manufacturer selling Linux netbooks.
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Normally I get upset and furious mouth foaming when people start coming up with half baked facts bout linux but these points seem believable.
 
These articles are misleading as they do not reflect the true OS demographics. In USA / UK Windows rules - the end. In Poland Linux rules - the end.

Sure I can believe a 30% Linux share in global terms, but what is the real share per market? Africa; Europe; Asia; South America; North America
 
One big reason why Linux is not making it in the US is because of their laws.
I mean, for one, go and try to watch a DVD legally on a free Linux distro. VLC and other decss apps are all deemed illegal in the USA.

Other reasons for hindering its growth: Hardware support (from suppliers) And yes I use Cedega but, to be honest with ourselves, off the rack games still have issues, like Red alert 3 I bought on Saturday.

Yes Linux is getting better... but honestly, there are still a lot of places where it is lacking, and until we can get the things mentioned above Linux will not get majority share in the OS world.
 
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LInux will p-own the world eventually...reason I say so is microsoft is a company, and even a company the size of microsoft will eventually die (just as distributions of linux we think untouchable might die) but linux is a movement almost on par with a religion in the sense that its so dispersed so many little tick branches each evolving to its own device of brilliance. That eventually in 50 years when microsoft is deceased linux will have evolved into some thing we cant phantom!!!!...or atleast I like to think so :)
 
Elimental said:
One big reason why Linux is not making it in the US is because of their laws.
I mean, for one, go and try to watch a DVD legally on a free Linux distro. VLC and other decss apps are all deemed illegal in the USA.

Other reasons for hindering its growth: Hardware support (from suppliers) And yes I use Cedega but, to be honest with ourselves, off the rack games still have issues, like Red alert 3 I bought on Saturday.

Yes Linux is getting better... but honestly, there are still a lot of places where it is lacking, and until we can get the things mentioned above Linux will not get majority share in the OS world.
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That is true. The problem with watching DVDs and other content (real media for instance) is that some encoding schemes and also their decoding schemes are copyrighted by their owners... recently a company got sued for including some company's encoding and decoding scheme in their software. This is why "restricted" software is available for after-install download on Linux distro's.
 
froot said:
This is why "restricted" software is available for after-install download on Linux distro's.
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That is still illegal

For Linux to succeed we have to change the world as a whole, not just the OS.

Hell even listening to an MP3 with your restricted codecs is illegal, we will have to change the world to use ogg vorbis and such technology, we have to change the world to make movies in other formats than blue ray or DVD.
 
Elimental said:
That is still illegal

For Linux to succeed we have to change the world as a whole, not just the OS.

Hell even listening to an MP3 with your restricted codecs is illegal, we will have to change the world to use ogg vorbis and such technology, we have to change the world to make movies in other formats than blue ray or DVD.
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It does depend on the specific country's laws pertaining to such. Ours seem to allow for certain things to happen but in America none of them are allowed.

To be able to view most of the media, ffmpeg, which is based on open source, can be used in most countries.
 
Elimental said:
And yes I use Cedega but, to be honest with ourselves, off the rack games still have issues, like Red alert 3 I bought on Saturday.
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You shouldn't have to use third party applications like Cedega to run the application. Developers and publishers use the excuse of MS being dominant in the market to justify not releasing decent cross platform applications.

DRM and developers/publishes are holding back the adoption of open source operating systems. It's good to see GT Interactive and iD Software doing their share to cater for most users.
 
But I applaud ASUS for taking the bold LINUX step. It shows their commitment to making their hardware more standards compliant. This is always the issue when hardware will not play with LINUX - win drivers, closed standards or just crap hardware.

This benefits all OS platforms and not just LINUX.
 
It would be interesting to know which distro they will favour. :rolleyes: I'm hoping Ubuntu, but then I am a patriot!

Also, Gnome or KDE as default installation? The battle rages on...
 
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