Anon writes "Mark Shuttleworth provides much more detail today about development of the Ubuntu netbook platform, and says OEMs are calling Canonical when they want to start building netbooks. Notes Channelweb: "It's actually a big deal. For example, Dell CEO Michael Dell has been carrying around an early version of a Dell mini-notebook, and referring to it as the device for the next billion Internet users... Asus has become an industry rock star by using GNU Linux to power its Eee PC. HP's niche Mini note runs SLED 10 Linux. The iPhone, of course, doesn't run Microsoft software.
Is anyone paying attention in Redmond?"
Has Microsoft been so distracted by Yahoo and problems with Vista that it's actually missing where the real action is taking place?"
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It actually makes quite a lot of sense for them. They make disposable appliances for browsing 'Net. No problems with additional (untested) software as most customers would not be able to install it. No problems with viruses. No problems with messed up configuration as it's not fully open, unless you know what you're doing (CLI). Oh, and it's for free. With very nice competition between vendors to add all features OEMs want just to have their own disto on it. Ingenious!
Makes sense (Score:2)
Oh, and it's for free. With very nice competition between vendors to add all features OEMs want just to have their own disto on it. Ingenious!