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Asus to ship 2 million Linux PCs in 2008
by Ian Dumych Mar 17th 2008 at 10:00AM
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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Franklin said 10:35AM on 3-17-2008
Hooray!
And I'm typing this on my Eee PC 2GB Surf!
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Eric H said 10:57AM on 3-17-2008
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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Kristin Shoemaker said 11:07AM on 3-17-2008
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.
Eric H said 11:22AM on 3-17-2008
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.
Diff Handy said 12:11PM on 3-17-2008
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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Christian said 12:30PM on 3-17-2008
I like that photo! though it'd be interesting to see it an apple too.
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David said 1:11PM on 3-17-2008
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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albi said 9:14AM on 3-19-2008
that illustration make me laugh
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