Linux on Netbooks

“There are many reasons that this is news. Dell is the
quintessential user computing device vendor. They have a well
recognized brand and off and on, have courted Linux on the desktop.
Linux has a lower acquisition cost for a hardware vendor — and on
a $300 computing device, there isn’t a lot of margin.

“Barring all of that strategic schpew — the fact is, my wife
uses an Ubuntu laptop and seems to have taken to the netbook with a
minimum of fuss. I use her viewpoint as an indicator of sorts. She
doesn’t hold much back in terms of criticism — if it sucks I’m
going to hear about it in short order.”

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