[SharmanNet]

As you know that Microsoft has extended the availability of Windows XP Home for ULCPC, which means Windows XP isn't going to die on June 30 2008 for all of us.

Now Asus has big plans for its little laptop and to the dismay of purists and Penguinistas, those plans centre on Windows XP. The company expects to sell five million Eee PCs this year, and Asus CEO Jerry Shen predicts that “about 60 percent of these” will run XP rather than the Xandros OS with which the mini-note debuted.

Of course, Eeenthusiasts have been installing XP and assorted Linux versions (most commonly Ubuntu, for which there’s now a bespoke version known as eeeXubuntu) even since this pint-sized portable was released. But that’s not a path for the mainstream, many of whom are attracted by the Eee PC’s price, weight and form factor but wary of the fact that it doesn’t have that familiar face of Windows, and nor can it run the same software they already use day to day.

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[Frylock86]

Sweet. I've been looking at one of these buggers for use for school, but was wary of getting one as I don't use Linux (Thats right I said it. No it doesn't suck, I just don't use it)

However, I'm rather upset at the lack of a disk drive as I would want to install a fresh copy of Xp rather than use the factory installation. One thing about factory PC's I hate is installed crapware....

[Liskiller]

I'm still thinking of buying a Eee PC and installing Ubuntu on it.