One man. Closing, all the windows.
China is ramping up production of the tiny notebooks. One will soon be available for about $100 using MIPS/GNU/Linux on a public casting. There is no place for M$ to hide its price. see http://techvideoblog.com/ifa/98-linux-laptop-the-hivision-mininote
Indeed. It has AbiWord+FireFox. It’s not Wintel in any way. Now to find a supplier or become one…
I just noticed this tasty tidbit from China:
“Windows and Unix command market shares of 41.8 percent and 53.9 percent, respectively.”
So, with a billion future users of PCs in China, that other OS is starting from 42% and GNU/Linux is starting from 2.5% with three times the growth rate… Doom for that other OS. We know GNU/Linux can take on most UNIX loads and it is less expensive. That leaves that other OS as just another OS, not a monopoly. HeHeHe. All the while, folks think GNU/Linux is a marginal/niche/tiny OS.
| Year | GNU/Linux | TOS |
| 2007 | 2.5 | 31 |
| 2008 | 3.3 | 34 |
| 2009 | 4.4 | 37 |
| 2010 | 5.9 | 40 |
| 2011 | 7.9 | 44 |
| 2012 | 10.3 | 48 |
| 2013 | 13.4 | 53 |
| 2014 | 17.4 | 58 |
| 2015 | 23.5 | 63 |
| 2016 | 31.5 | 69 |
That assumes a constant growth rate and UNIX disappears. I would bet that once GNU/Linux gets to 10% or so it will grow faster and overtake that other OS. TIme will tell. It is all good news.
Lest the trolls find something to celebrate in this, these figures are growth in sales… Think of the numbers of free copies of GNU/Linux that could propagate in China.
Some trolls claim wireless N does not work with GNU/Linux. That may seem plausible in that few drivers were available but ath9k is in Linux 2.6.27 at rc7 and working and some are using it in Ubuntu Intrepid which is alpha.
Status of Project IEEE 802.11n
Standard for Enhancements for Higher Throughput
July 2008, Denver, Colorado, US
TGn Draft 5.0 passed recirculation ballot #129 by an 90% majority (75% required) with 261 votes to approve, 29 not approve, 23 abstain.
All 1112 comments from this recirculation ballot were resolved during this meeting, and the working group approved a recirculation ballot on a TGn Draft 6.0, incorporating these comment resolutions.
The timeline was modified, and now anticipates publication in November 2009 instead of July 2009. The group is targeting September 3-5 for an ad hoc meeting to resolve comments from the recirculation ballot on Draft 6.0.
N, itself, is not necessarily stable so it may not be a good idea to go spend a bunch of money on it until next year, but it is interesting technology. I have booted thin clients on g but n would be much more fun. Lots of products use Atheros chips for n so I think the trolls are wrong. Of course the trolls would reply that one has to build, etc. but they are still wrong. Folks are testing Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex now and other distros have the driver.
Again, the anti-GNU/Linux trolls make a mountain out of mole-hill to stop GNU/Linux but we just tunnel right through. One thing is sure. When 802.11n is ready GNU/Linux will be.
I had a real driver issue yesterday. An old PC refused to boot PXE. It turned out the new batch of Ethernet cards uses a different chip even though it is the same model number… Not a GNU/Linux issue at all. I just made up a copy of my default PXE file for the particular MAC hardware address and added NIC=via-rhine to the boot parameters and we are good to go. The old crate boots much faster than newer machines with XP. Drivers are not a mountain for GNU/Linux, just little bumps.
There have been lots of M$’s sycophants spreading the word now. Vista II will save you…
When has M$ ever been on time?
Since Vista is still in beta, I think it would be better to call M$’s next release alpha software. The folks who bought Vista before SP1 certainly did not get release-quality software.
Those who are clinging to XP waiting for the next good release from M$ should better be planning a migration to MacOSX or GNU/Linux. The re-learning will cost a lot less than all the re-re-re-boots Vista II will cost. Even if their next release is Vista SP2 and is decent, do you really want a supplier of software who takes 8 years to get it right or a release early and often system that keeps an even keel? Go with GNU/Linux. It works for you, not against you.
Look at Debian. They are trying to release soon, too. see their bug-list. There, you get an honest description of the situation. If they can do a new release every year or two and get that kind of quality in more than 20000 packages, why would you even think of going with M$ with an unknown number and they do not hesitate to release show-stoppers like the long good-bye and DRM?
I am working in a place now where XP takes 45s to boot and two minutes to give a usable desktop. Do these guys really want to do anything with Vista II? Their oldest hardware will boot Debian in 45s and give a usable desktop in 2s. Vapourware will give them a huge bill and worse performance.
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