Linked by David Adams on Wed 6th Aug 2008 15:32 UTC
After 10 years of supporting Linux, IBM continues to challenge Microsoft on multiple fronts and aims to push Linux even further into the enterprise. While IBM has competed and partnered with Microsoft over the last two decades, the Microsoft-free PC effort is perhaps its most direct assault yet. "The idea of Microsoft-free personal computing has been in the air for a while," Inna Kuznetsova, director of Linux at IBM, told InternetNews.com. "We're just partnering with Linux distribution vendors and hardware vendors to make it happen."
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2005-07-06
If you're only counting direct association "Vista is too heavy --> I'll use Linux" very few did this, it's true.
Now if you think about the EEE PC, you may ask yourself *why* is-it coming with Linux in the first place?
The most likely answer is: Vista is too heavy for this PC and Microsoft is trying to kill XP: so Asus chose to use Linux.. So yes, Vista heavy resource usage, did increase Linux adoption (*).
*: well at least temporarily: as usual Microsoft reacted swiftly to anything which can damage their monopoly so they now say "use XP for low performance computer, it's ok!".