Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Nov 2007 21:12 UTC, submitted by Anonymous Coward
Asus has responded to the GPL violation allegations. "The source code found here is complete to the best of Asus's knowledge. If you believe any additional source code files should be provided under the applicable open source license, please contact Asus at support@asus.com and provide in detail the product or code module in question. Asus is committed to meeting the requirements of the open source licenses including the GNU General Public License." Additionally, ASUS announced the upcoming SDK for the eeePC. "Asus is also pleased to announce the upcoming release of the Eee PC SDK. This will allow for the development on the Eee PC by the OpenSource community making it easy to develop, easy to port and easy to release software for the Eee PC platform."
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Seriously, I fail to see what you'd get more out of XP on such a machine. It's not as if someone would buy the eeePC to play games...
There is much that can be done with a 900Mhz proc and a notebook of such size that would still require XP on it to be useful, as I posted an example of earlier.
People need to realize (though it seems they never do) Linux equivalent != Windows equivalent in all cases when comparing available software.
Ardour is not as good as Pro Tools or Cubase. GIMP is not as good as Photoshop, OOo is not as good as MS Office. etc. Sure it's subjective, but I think I'd have a few people agree.
Member since:2005-07-02
Ardour is not as good as Pro Tools or Cubase.
I wouldn't know (though I hear that Ardour is continually improving - I've certainly heard excellent demos that were done on it), however that is a *very* small niche market. The eeePC wasn't made for that market.
GIMP is not as good as Photoshop
Are you telling me you'd want to do print-quality graphics on the eeePC and its tiny screen? That is *not* what it was designed for.
Meanwhile, if you're *not* doing print-quality stuff (i.e. if you don't need color separation), then Gimp *is* just as good as Photoshop. I use both on a regular basis.
OOo is not as good as MS Office. etc.
Actually, it is as far as Word Processing and Spreadsheet are concerned. I doubt many people would use Access on the eeePC...
Sure it's subjective, but I think I'd have a few people agree.
Well, I'm all for choice, so if someone wants to put Windows on the eeePC, good for them. I do believe that, unless you're a sound designer who is sold to CuBase, there is no real rational reason to do so.
Member since:2005-07-06
Ardour is not as good as Pro Tools or Cubase. GIMP is not as good as Photoshop, OOo is not as good as MS Office. etc. Sure it's subjective, but I think I'd have a few people agree.
True but you would not be running Cubase on a eeePC. Nor would you run full Photoshop unless you are massochistic. GIMP, for the kind of work you can do on a eeePC, is fine as long as you know your way around GIMP. OOo is not as good as MS Office perhaps, but it is more than adequate for normal document editing and such.
XP will run on an eeePC sure, Asus even provide instructions on how to do do the install and optimize in the manual. However I think that Linux is a better fit for the platform, both in memory use and in applications available at a low cost. The eeePC is not a desktop replacement. Outside of a few corner cases I can not see most people making an eeePC their primary computer. It does provide a low cost solution for an ultraportable compliment to your primary system however.
Member since:2007-02-17
People need to realize (though it seems they never do) Linux equivalent != Windows equivalent in all cases when comparing available software.
Ardour is not as good as Pro Tools or Cubase. GIMP is not as good as Photoshop, OOo is not as good as MS Office. etc. Sure it's subjective, but I think I'd have a few people agree.
Ardour is not as good as Pro Tools or Cubase. GIMP is not as good as Photoshop, OOo is not as good as MS Office. etc. Sure it's subjective, but I think I'd have a few people agree.
I think you might be a little bit out-of-date with those views.
Remember, with the ASUS EeePC, we are not talking high-end expensive software ... it just doesn't have the specs for that. Putting an expensive high-end Windows application on an EeePC is just a complete and utter waste of time & money.
If we are talking about software other than the expensive high-end, then Linux software has Windows-only software beat pointless in terms of capability and value-for-money.
PS: A better resource for finding Linux audio tools:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_audio_software
Better explanation of capabilities and weaknesses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosegarden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_%28software%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardour_%28audio_processor%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusE
Edited 2007-11-28 23:45
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2005-07-02
It is likely those people haven't tried the eeePC's Linux-based OS. Who knows, they might actually prefer it to XP.
Seriously, I fail to see what you'd get more out of XP on such a machine. It's not as if someone would buy the eeePC to play games...