With All the buzz surrounding the release of of Asus EEE PC 107, its not a surprise that the pre-installed OS will also get some recognition. As we all now Asustek has pre-installed the EEE PC 107 laptop with the Xandros Linux operating System.
For those who wander what is Xandros Linux you check out my blog post about this linux distro.
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For those of you who are not aware that we have a Linux group here in Davao City which is DabaweGNU, Inc.
Here the site’s profile:
DabaweGNU, Inc., is a non-stock, non-profit organization registered with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission on December 5, 2003. Its primary aim is to provide its members a venue for technical growth in “Free/Open Source Software” (FOSS) technologies and to advocate the use of this technology to the rest of the community.
FOSS BLOGS
I just recently updated my FOSS Blog which is about Free and Open Source Softwares. On that blog will also feature the latest on Linux and other news about GNU/Open Source Community.
Check it out => http://fossblogs.wordpress.com
By Peter Galli
from: PCMAG.com
SAN FRANCISCO—Windows Vista has probably created the single biggest opportunity for the Linux desktop to take market share, Cole Crawford, an IT strategist at Dell, said in an address titled, “The Linux Desktop—Fact, FUD or Fantasy?” at the annual LinuxWorld Conference & Expo here.
For example, a number of companies have moved back to Windows XP after deploying Vista, Crawford said, before quoting Scott Granneman, an author, entrepreneur and adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, as saying, “To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just have to work on it.”
Microsoft has also owned the desktop for more than 15 years, Crawford said, “and so the only way for them to go is down. But Linux can only go up, and its growth potential is enormous. While Linux only has 1 percent of share on the desktop versus Microsoft’s more than 90 percent, that is changing, and the Linux desktop is expected to gain some share over the next two years,” he said.
The number of developers targeting Windows decreased by 12 percent in the last year, while their targeting of Linux has increased by 34 percent over the same period, recently released information from Evans Data shows, Crawford said.
The interoperability agreements that Microsoft has signed with Linux vendors, from Novell to Xandros and Linspire, have also had largely positive results so far, he said, adding that another plus was the fact that Linux development has shifted to a model in which a significant portion of the kernel is being developed by corporate entities.
On the downside, Crawford said, was the fact that no one actually owns the kernel and this makes SLAs (service-level agreements) more challenging.
Read the rest of this eWEEK story: Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says
Based from the Article By Rob Hof for Businessweek.com The latest challenger to Explorer and Firefox aims to beat the big guys by emphasizing blogging, networking, and online communities. Web browsers don’t look much different than they did a decade ago, when Netscape Communications’s initial stock offering catapulted software for navigating the Web into the public eye. You click on a site, look around, watch or listen to something, click somewhere else — all by your lonesome self. Now, an upstart called Flock aims to change all that. Read the rest of this entry »
