The netbook craze is currently in full swing, with these small laptops being advertised everywhere (at least here in The Netherlands); in fact, you can already get netbooks with 3G from the mobile phone carriers at severely reduced prices (but with a one or two year contract, of course). Netbooks are also welcomed by the Linux community as the break they've been waiting for: many netbooks are available with Linux pre-installed. One of the more successful (and powerful) netbooks out there is MSI's Wind, which is also sold under different brand and model names by other companies. In an interview with LaptopMag, MSI's Director of US Sales Andy Tung, however, has some bad news for those that believe the netbook will be the foot in the door that the Linux desktop has been waiting for.
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And why exactly do you think that Linux needs a new kernel to be successful on the desktop? Seriously? Most current desktops have more cores and memory than the most powerful workstations a few years ago. I have far from uber gear and I am running quad core with 8 gigs of memory. I run Fedora 9 and I can run multiple video clips simultaneously without skipping, with audio mixed at the hardware level, and I have full 3D support. What exactly am I missing from the desktop experience?
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You can't solve every problem just by continually scaling up the equipment it's running on. Most of the problems I looked into can't ever be solved that way. And if You make a desktop OS it has to run well on the most common system of the day, a Pentiun 4 with 512 MB of RAM.
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No, they were stated because I've done research into why I have to put up with annoyances on Linux, and come to the conclusion that open source for desktops needs a new kernel in order to ever be successful and I tried to convince people of that. Of course the community will always start a flame war if you criticize Linux for weaknesses to competitors; but it was the truth, sorry it hurts. (and this comment goes full circle into more flame wars because it also encourages the people who can't ever admit to Linux's weaknesses to start shouting at the top of their lungs so no hears the them, and the weaknesses are never dealt with. It's a perfectly rational comment, but it will get irrational responses.)