[Leaplist] Linux is about to take over, starting with the low end computers.

[Kyle Gonzales]

Another area of failure I am seeing is with the UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC)
category.  Things like Nokia N770/N800/N810 have tiny amounts of
memory by today's standards, but using linux and open source make it
useful and successful.  At the same time, devices like the Samsung Q1
with a gig of memory and Intel mobile processes are not successful...
with Windows Vista.  Customers buy Windows XP to make them managable.
However, loading Linux on these devices allows them to run quite well.
 I read an article about Gentoo on a Samsing Q1, with all the features
enabled, including full touchscreen support.  OLPC runs Linux.
Microsoft wants them to run Windows, but they need to double the
memory just to get it to RUN.  It will need more for it to be usable.

Sure if you have a powerful dual core system with 2 Gb of memory,
Vista is functional.  However, if you are looking for more mobile
computing, Microsoft is failing.

On Dec 8, 2007 8:55 PM, patrick <pberry2 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> In business, it can be argued, but not debated, that Microsoft is at
> least double the cost for a system that is both safe and competent.
> Multiply that by the 40 or 100 licenses and the larger technical staff
> needed to run a business network with servers, totally on M$, and it
> almost demands that no money be squandered un-necessarily on Microsoft.
>
> Steven J. Nichols-Vaughn makes these, and other points in his report at
> DesktopLinux
>
> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2414535067.html
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