Mobile linux news

2008 08 28

Another New GNU/Linux Sub-Notebook: Liliputer

The rise of the all-conquering Liliputer

The number of models of "Liliputer" - low-cost ultraportable PCs running Windows or Linux - has exploded to more than 100 in less than a year, according to Liliputing.com, a site put together by the freelance journalist Brad Linder.

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"There's a lot of Linux out there -- much more than Microsoft generally signals publicly -- and their customers are using it..." --Paul DeGroot, a Directions On Microsoft analyst. Recent: Intel & Microsoft Killed the $100 Laptop

The article points that the stand taken by Intel and Microsoft is similar to the stand by large drug companies who, instead of working for the illnesses that plague the poor, (such as malaria) choose to focus on low-volume, high-margin drugs for cancer, heart ailments and diabetes.

http://s5h.net/u?za924c
Microsoft dropped Vista hardware spec to raise Intel profits
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Microsoft 'Caves' To Intel
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Intel Backstabs Microsoft by Abandoning Vista

The news that Intel has decided it won't upgrade its PCs to Vista must be especially bitter for Microsoft because court documents show that Microsoft may have launched its ill-fated "junk PC" Vista scheme at the behest of Intel. Is this the kind of payback that Microsoft expected?

http://s5h.net/u?z70ba
Intel won't touch Vista

So that leaves two other choices, Linux and Mac. Linux is a distinct possibility, they already have an in-house distro that causes employees look nervously around the room when you talk about it. Although it is not a desktop variant, there is no reason that they could not roll one given two years.

http://s5h.net/u?z88d7c
Otellini: 'MID revolution will be centred round Linux'

Intel CEO says Microsoft's insistence on pushing Vista will hand market to open source rival Intel's CEO has said that he sees the revolution that is about to happen around mobile internet devices (MID) such as the Eee PC and other Atom-based sub-notebooks will be "centred round Linux", in an interview with Associated Press.

http://s5h.net/u?zd981
EU files new charges against Intel

European Union antitrust regulators made new accusations against chipmaker Intel on Thursday, saying it paid retailers to not sell PCs using chips made by rival Advanced Micro Devices.

http://s5h.net/u?z49a06
Intel "paid vendors not to use AMD"

AMD filed suit in Delaware against Intel in June of 2005, accusing its competitor of abusing its monopolistic position. The complaint charges that customers were forced not to use AMD processors. At that time the Japanese anti-trust body was investigating Intel and the EU Commission also had its eye on Intel's behaviour.

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