ASUS GNU/Linux Netbook Imminent at Robert Pogson

“Asustek Computer will start marketing its low-priced netbook, the Eee PC X101, in July with models running on MeeGo available at US$199 and those running on Windows 7 available at US$310-350, according to industry sources.”, according to Digitimes.

There it is and XP is too dead to hold back GNU/Linux again. So is Vista. “7″ costs too much in these small, cheap computers. MeeGo is a GNU/Linux distro developed by Nokia and Intel. While Nokia has dropped MeeGo, Intel is still involved and ASUS will ship products.

The difference between the new netbooks and the first eeePC? They do not even try to be like that other OS… They will be just as popular as Android smart thingies and perhaps faster, running native instead of interpreted code. There should be no “users return them” or “users resist them” FUD because we know smart thingies with simplified user interfaces are flying off shelves globally.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.

2 Responses to “ASUS GNU/Linux Netbook Imminent”

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1 Ray Jun 27th, 2011 at 9:26 am

Wait, how do we know that Meego has GNU in it?
2 Robert Pogson Jun 27th, 2011 at 11:22 am

You can download it and examine it. It’s Free Software. Isn’t that wonderful?

You can find lots of GNUish stuff in the download:
/meego-core-ia32-madde-sysroot-1.2.0-fs/meego-core-ia32-mad de-sysroot-1.2.0$ ls usr/share
accounts empty icons qt4
aclocal et idl screen
aclocal-1.11 evolution-data-server-2.32 info sounds
alsa farsight2 intltool ss
applications file l10n syncevolution
augeas fonts latencytop sysprof
autoconf games libprolog tabset
automake-1.11 gcc-4.5.1 libthai telepathy
avahi gdb libtool terminfo
awk geoclue-providers magic themes
backgrounds gettext meegotouch tracker
backup-framework ghostscript mime vala
bison git-core mime-info X11
cmake glib-2.0 misc xml
contentaction gnome nano xsessions
contextkit gnupg omf zile
cups groff PackageKit zoneinfo
cvs gssdp pixmaps zypp
dbus-1 gstreamer-0.10 pkgconfig zypper
desktop-directories gtk-2.0 polkit-1
dict hwdata ppd
emacs i18n pulseaudio

e.g.
groff is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.