Supporters of Linux on the desktop have a lot to be excited about this year. As Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has astutely pointed out, Asus recently announced their plans to ship five million Eee PCs this year, with 60% of them running Windows XP. While the mass media is spinning this story to make it sound like Microsoft is eroding Linux's market share, the opposite is so. Asus sold 300,000 units last year running Xandros Linux, a far cry from the 5 million they expect to sell this year. According to Vaughan-Nichols, Asus will ship more Linux PCs this year than "all other Linux PC vendors combined up until 2008"!
Pat yourselves on the back, Linux users, for you fight the good fight, and we are making real headway.
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3-17-2008 @ 10:35AM
Franklin said...
Hooray!
And I'm typing this on my Eee PC 2GB Surf!
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3-17-2008 @ 10:57AM
Eric H said...
How many people will be buying them to throw on their own copy of xp. I only know a handful of Eee owners and all are running xp.
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3-17-2008 @ 11:07AM
Kristin Shoemaker said...
Have had a 4 gig Surf for about two months now. The easy mode lasted about fifteen minutes, Advanced Mode Xandros about a week, and it's been eeeXubuntu ever since.
No need for XP.
3-17-2008 @ 11:22AM
Eric H said...
I didn't mean to imply that all users do, but just selling one running Linux doesn't mean that it will continue running Linux.
3-17-2008 @ 12:11PM
Diff Handy said...
It's kind of nice to see it going the other way a bit. I don't know any eeepc users but I've helped 6 people so far this year change their XP/Vista systems to linux. Hell my own laptop came with XP on it (which wasn't even booted).
I've yet to have my windows tax returned to be by Sony.
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3-17-2008 @ 12:30PM
Christian said...
I like that photo! though it'd be interesting to see it an apple too.
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3-17-2008 @ 1:11PM
David said...
LINUX
yay
i like your art. go tux!
i am not a huge fan of Eee PCs, but I support anywhere where linux is on a computer. next machine I buy, I will either buy without an OS or build it myself and put ubuntu 7.10 on it.
open source is changing the world. it will change the global economy.
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3-19-2008 @ 9:14AM
albi said...
that illustration make me laugh
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