Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th May 2008 18:11 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
As we all know, the Eee PC, running a modified Xandros, has been a major hit for Asus, and because of that, also a major hit for Linux. The device proved that a computer with a pre-installed Linux distribution can still be s successful machine, and many hoped that this would push Asus and other vendors to produce more computers with Linux pre-installed. This hope could be in vain after all if the new Windows XP-based Eee PC has anything to do with it.
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I like how they're trying to justify it with the smaller hard disk (on the XP version) -- but this revelation has a very bad smell to it. One gets the impression that the folks at Redmond were quietly soiling themselves when the Xandros Eee came out -- and was a success. I expect things went into a different gear once this had sunk in -- and now they're reacting by pulling out all the stops -- nay, racketeering tactics -- to get this trend reversed. Nothing scares them more than OEM adoption of Linux.
Edited 2008-05-07 19:04 UTC