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Would two gigs of RAM really be such a problem? Linux may not be perfect but neither is XP. It’s easily the most annoying thing they’ve done for a long time. Microsoft definately has been crippling netbook specs. The two things are not mutually exclusive. There does seem to be a strong reluctance on the part of OEMs to actually work with the Linux distributions … So what is the problem here? Why is this effort necessary? Why can’t there just be a nice, polished, fast, stable, not-tainted-by-Windows (so no Mono) Linux OS offered by OEMs for sale to consumers along with the machines? You can set up (with some effort) a very nice Linux OS working on your netbook. So I actually agree with you … but I also note that it can be done.
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Unfortunately, Jaunty is at this time still in Alpha-release stage, so it too at this point doesn’t have the spit and polish that you are looking for.Įven for Arch Linux (which in general is very up-to-date) … I have to go and install a special kernel called kernel-eee.Īnother example … MEPIS 8.0 is stable, solid, and polished (it is basically Debian 5.0) … but wireless and sound don’t work properly on netbooks out of the box.
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This quest is not made any easier by the distributions not including in their kernels the wireless drivers and acpi scripts that are actually available. I’m still in the hunt myself for a version that works out of the box on netbooks as well as I know Linux can work. Xandros and SuSe both come from companies that have signed deals with Microsoft … For a long time, the only option available were “tame” versions that were essentially locked down to what was offered on the machine.
Linux on netbooks is indeed a bit of a sad story. Avoiding the issue, moderating down comments and screaming in my face isn’t going to fix these issues and they aren’t going to disappear if you suddenly start ignoring them. Having tried OpenSuSE 11.1, Ubuntu 8.10 and ArchLinux, I can assure you that Linux has along way to go in the area of spit, polish and professionalism when it comes to sorting out the rough edges.
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Just to avoid the shit storm of the century – maybe you should look at the state of Linux before assuming that the lack of Linux uptake/growth on the netbook after Windows XP entered the scene all has to do with ‘big bad Microsoft’. So, if as an OEM you want to offer a netbook class machine with better hardware specs (say 2GB RAM and 1280×800 screen resolution) … then just put Linux on it and go right ahead. These limitations are not due inherently to the Intel Atom processor. So you can’t get a netbook with XP Home with more than 1GB RAM, or 1024×600 screen size, or faster than 1.86 GHz single-core CPU. Microsoft put “self-imposed” restrictions on the machine specifications for which they were prepared to offer XP Home to OENs at that bargain price as an option. Microsoft almost “gives away” XP Home to OEMs who make netbooks, in an attempt to slow the rate at which Linux was being installed on that class of machine. And _all_ processors are bound by thermal limits on their clock rate (or “speed”). The Atom platform is _not_ limited in RAM, screen size, or screen resolution the specific configurations ordered by OEMs determine these factors. Also in the name of power savings, EM64T-specific hardware and the newer SSE extensions were left out. The Atom is an in-order processor because Intel chose not to implement branch-prediction hardware in order to save power.
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