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Upcoming Emtec GDium ultraportable will run Mandriva Linux

Started by Brad Linder · 4 months ago

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Levi Littvay
4 months ago

As long as these netbook Linuxes remain well supported (firefox is updated, skype is updated, etc.) it doesn't matter. The way I see the netbook market is that there are three kinds of people:

1, Who will use Windows
2, Who will use whatever comes on the system
3, Who will customize the Linux to their needs.

1 and 3, matters not. 2 will be fine no matter who packaged their system as long as it remains supported. (I do have some concerns that it won't stay supported past a year or so.) Unfortunately people who need more services will switch to Windows or are Linux pros who will do it them selves for them selves...

I would love to see enough people in category 2 to create competition between the systems. Who can offer more? Package more/better software that you choose to install.

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netbsd
4 months ago

I assume you can boot from USB, SD1 or SD2 on the Acer subnotebook as well, so in this regard the Gdium is hardly special.

What's special is Emtec wants you to pay more for less.

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Eric
4 months ago

I don't think we need one standard Linux distro for notebooks, but manufactures should stay with major, well supported distros like ubuntu, mint, opensuse, fedora, mandriva etc...

These are usually polished ans supported enough so that new users don't get lost too much.

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