Acer Bets Big On Linux

Stony Stevenson writes to tell us IT News is reporting that Acer is betting big on Linux, looking to push Tux on many of their upcoming laptops and netbooks. "The company is already heavily promoting Linux for its low cost ultra-portable netbook range out later this year, but senior staff have said that Acer will also push Linux on its laptops. [...] Acer sees two killer apps with Linux on computers: operation and cost. Its flavour of Linux will boot in 15 seconds compared to minutes for Windows, and the open source operating system can extend battery life from five to seven hours."

Operation and Cost?

[geoffrobinson]

Operation and cost are killer apps?

Will this be the year?

[OglinTatas]

Will this be the year of linux on the UMPC?
Alternate troll:
Is linux ready for the UMPC?

It's a trick!

[Thelasko]

Acer is going to ruin Linux's reputation with their crappy hardware! Only one company is clever enough to think of a scheme as devious as this one.

Microsoft!

Re:Operation and Cost?

[mckinnsb]

Apparently the word "Application" has been broadened to mean "quality attributes" on a relative level when abbreviated, meaning that "low cost" and "ease of operation" (both being high quality) are "Killer Applications". I guess you could *see* how this word slip happened, being that "killer applications" are often considered "quality attributes" when marketing operating systems, mobile devices, or software/hardware packages.

[/logic]

Oh, woe is you, English Language, woe is you. Torn to shreds by marketers and businessmen. Somewhere, George Orwell is crying.

[/poetic]

I'm fine with some marketing terminology abstraction, but I'd like to say , "Hey Guy! Get a dictionary!". He could have just said "killer selling points".

Re:Operation and Cost?

[Anonymous Coward]

[/retard]

Re:Operation and Cost?

[jfbilodeau]

sudo apt-get install operation cost

Let me know if that works!

Tux?

[samkass]

looking to push Tux on many of their upcoming laptops and netbooks.

That's GNU/Tux to you, freedom hater!

Does it run OS X? Does it have the Apple logo?

[Anonymous Coward]

If not, why bother with yet another piece of crap? It seems companies are really struggling to find ways to compete with the juggernaut that is Apple. Windoze clearly doesn't cut the mustard, and now they are attempting to use Lin-sux to fill in the gaps. Unfortunately for them, Apple owns the laptop market and will soon dominate the desktop market as well as the handheld market and every other market where a GOOD computer is desireable. The reason for this is simple: OS X is a better OS than anything else on the market in every conceivable way. It's faster, stabler, more secure, more scalable, easier to use, easier to program, more open, more standards compliant, and is built and maintained by high quality professional American programmers. Nothing else compares, and nothing else ever will compare. Smart people use Apple products. Even Linus Torvalds uses a Mac for his "real work", he admitted as much years ago. Bill Gates has never admitted it, but he probably has a fleet of Mac's in his home office.

Re:Operation and Cost?

[r3m0t]

She probably just liked the interface of The GIMP (big buttons, colourful) compared to the cramped, "compact" look of Photoshop. (Screen resolutions were smaller back then, and so were the buttons.)

Your test proves nothing.

Re:Operation and Cost?

[Eil]

Guess whom it is killing.

Hmm, I keep hearing that BSD is dying...

Re:I'm not suprised

[njh]

yes, my $300 acer laptop switched to ubuntu after the first boot took nearly 20 minutes. It took less time to install ubuntu than to boot vista.