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| By jervis961 May 25, 2008 |
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Oops broke a cardinal IdeaStorm rule here and have asked for Dell to fix it. "Use" should be "Offer" in the title. I don't want anyone freaking out thinking I mean that Dell should only offer Ubuntu.
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| By winoffice May 25, 2008 |
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Not "use", but "offer".
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| By jervis961 May 25, 2008 |
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Thanks for reading the comments before voting winoffice.
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| By aikiwolfie May 26, 2008 |
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LOL we all know winoffice is just anti-Linux period. Anyway I'd like to see OS options of Ubuntu Remix, Ubuntu Mobile and I suppose we could throw in something for the Microsofties too.
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| By yesmathew May 27, 2008 |
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I think Dell is going to release Dell NetBook this June with Ubuntu easy mode (Remix) on it, like in Eee PC. My prediction. Cheers.
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| By aikiwolfie May 27, 2008 |
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What makes you think they'll use Ubuntu instead of Windows XP? Microsoft have kept XP alive specifically to block Linux distributions getting a solid foot hold in the stupidly small PC user space. Dell are pretty snug with Microsoft.
I would of course welcome Ubuntu of any kind on a Dell.
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| By zmjjmz May 27, 2008 |
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As it was pointed out on engadget, Dell is releasing the netbook in June and Shuttleworth is announcing the netbook remix in... June. Coinkidink? I think not.
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| By aikiwolfie May 27, 2008 |
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OOOOO I never seed that! I'm off to find it! :o)
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| By jervis961 May 27, 2008 |
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I hadn't noticed it being called "netbook" unless I missed an article somewhere.
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| By aikiwolfie May 27, 2008 |
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The only netbook thingy I found was the Intel stuff. Nothing about Dell. BUT Ubuntu Remix is due in June :oD
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| By yesmathew May 28, 2008 |
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Intel is talking about NeBook, Dell is calling NetBook and even Ubuntu. Check this news - Thin Intel Netbook to vie with MacBook Air? , see carefully the images of Netbook, I think they are Ubuntu Remix (easy mode). Cheers.
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| By jervis961 May 28, 2008 |
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Thanks for the link.
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| By aikiwolfie May 28, 2008 |
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It just looks like a blue Asus Eee PC. Way to go with the imagination there. They really pulled out all the stops on design. "LOOK! Ours is BLUE!". Might as well buy an Eee.
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| By jervis961 May 28, 2008 |
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Dell has a red one coming. http://gizmodo.com/393815/exclusive-dell-mini-inspiron-their-first-mini-laptop
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| By aikiwolfie May 28, 2008 |
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Awe man they made a pencil case! I'm not buying that.
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| By zmjjmz May 28, 2008 |
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That's a rather large pencil case...
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| By aikiwolfie May 29, 2008 |
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Um ... maybe it's for art students :oD Anyway it's just not really what I'm looking for. Another let down.
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| By limulus Jun 5, 2008 |
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Now would be an appropriate time to mention the "race to the bottom"
As a computer, the Eee PC from Asus is intended to be the opposite of intimidating--it's made for children after all. But its potential as a market force is apparently giving chills to its larger industry peers.
Here at Sony's annual Open House event, the senior vice president of Sony's IT product division said the tiny $299 notebook could potentially shift the entire notebook industry.
"If (the Eee PC from) Asus starts to do well, we are all in trouble. That's just a race to the bottom," said Mike Abary.
He means that if mainstream PC buyers start to find their needs met by a lightweight, simply featured, inexpensive portable, it's likely to impel all of the major players in the industry to pile on by lowering their prices. And that's in an industry with already low margins for retailers and manufacturers.
If the Eee PC just catches on with Linux developers, enthusiasts, and the tech-savvy early adopter crowd, that's fine by him. "But if mainstream buyers buy it, then, whoa," Abary said.
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| By limulus Jun 5, 2008 |
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aikiwolfie: here's something that's going to upset winoffice ;)
[Technology Guardian] Do you think that GNU/Linux will ever become a significant force on the desktop?
[Mark Shuttleworth] I think that depends on how people define a desktop. If people continue to define a desktop as the thing that they run Microsoft Word on, then Windows will retain its position. My sense, though, is that people are increasingly defining the desktop as the thing that they get access to the internet from. In that case, there's a real possibility that we're able to shift people onto different platforms. I think it's the emergence of the internet as the killer application, the thing that describes what you want from the computer, that opens the door to us.
(emphasis added)
Firefox 3 on Ubuntu is just SO nice; on one of those 'pencil case' systems (which I actually think is a cute description :) under a tree in the park would be a dream :-)
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| By aikiwolfie Jun 5, 2008 |
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Your right that will upset winoffice.
"TG: Recently you publicly criticised the ISO for the way the way it handled the voting on Microsoft's OOXML; how seriously do you think ISO's credibility has been damaged by that episode?
MS Very seriously [for] anybody who is passionate about open standards. The ISO process has traditionally worked very well; it's quite an academic, considered process, but it really wasn't designed to handle a case with very, very vigorous corporate lobbying and an enormous amount of money being spent to try to get a particular outcome. And with hindsight, there were a number of very serious flaws in the process.
TG: As Ubuntu gains in importance, do you feel that you have an increased responsibility to speak out in this way?
MS I think we all have a responsibility to contribute to the public discourse. I have a level of economic independence, which is perhaps a good and a bad thing, but at the very least my opinion can't be bought that easily."
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