Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Oct 2009 22:27 UTC, submitted by twitterfire
We already introduced Dell's new laptop wonder, the Z600, to you earlier this week. What makes this laptop special is that it contains a small ARM motherboard which runs a special version of openSUSE Linux, allowing for instant access to basic functionality like checking email, browsing the web, and playing multimedia files. What's news, at least for OSNews, is that research from Dell has shown that people spent 70% of their time in the Linux environment.
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Don't be so doubtful about spreading Linux evangelism in technical forums.
There were posts like that daily in forums before 2000 and now look at the results.
I went to Best Buy the other day and asked for a Windows desktop. He laughed and said you should look online because they only carry Ubuntu.
True story.
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I'm hot surprised - I wish I'd had instant on this week. I forgot to bring my laptop to work and borrowed a student’s to play an mp3 to the class. The machine was a low powered Vista laptop and it literally took 5 to 10 minutes to boot, logon, mount my flash drive and open the mp3 file. I was forcibly reminded that in 1994 a RISCOS machine could boot and be useful in about 10 seconds. If Linux can boot quickly, open a functional desktop well people will use it - though I wonder if a modern RISCOS wouldn't have been great.
The more people how use Linux, the more people will use it and the better it will get (positive feedback) so let me say YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!