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[pcHuntqwerty]

Asus has announced that it will ship three models of its Eee PC with Ubuntu 10.10 preinstalled. The three PCs are Eee PC 1001PXD, 1011PX and 1015PX which will come with Ubuntu 10.10 from June 1st.

Previously the majority of Asus Eee PC netbooks came preloaded with Microsoft's Windows. When Asus introduced the Eee PC back in 2007, it shipped with the Xandros Linux distribution, however once Microsoft realised that netbooks were becoming a big seller, it came out with a cut down version of its Windows operating system. Since then the majority of netbooks sold have been preloaded with Microsoft's operating system

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[yanike]

UBUNTU! That's what I'm talking about.

[Villain]

As having had two different netbooks (and returned both of them...) they both had Win 7 on it... and it was way to sluggish. I routinely have to make use of my sister's netbook... and i dislike it. When I DO have to use her netbook, I have a Linux on a USB Drive and I boot in to that.

Really, All netbooks need to be Linux only.

[Frylock86]

I had Win7 running on a circa 2008 ASUS EEE PC 900HA. Ran fine.

Edited by Frylock86, 05 June 2011 - 04:46 AM.

[FalseAgent]

As having had two different netbooks (and returned both of them...) they both had Win 7 on it... and it was way to sluggish. I routinely have to make use of my sister's netbook... and i dislike it. When I DO have to use her netbook, I have a Linux on a USB Drive and I boot in to that.

Really, All netbooks need to be Linux only.

Kill me for saying this, but I think XP is actually quite a good OS for netbooks given that the user doesn't load it up with crapware.

[P.McGinley]

You shouldn't have mentioned "XP" here. Now fanboys will take over this thread!

[InlineSkate]

As having had two different netbooks (and returned both of them...) they both had Win 7 on it... and it was way to sluggish. I routinely have to make use of my sister's netbook... and i dislike it. When I DO have to use her netbook, I have a Linux on a USB Drive and I boot in to that.

Really, All netbooks need to be Linux only.

My issue with Linux and I know it isn't necessarily the fault of the OS itself is the plugins both Flash and Java run like alpha releases they are poorly optimized. The sad thing about this is with these optimization issues a sluggish winbook still runs faster when using plugins. My second issue with it is some developers getting lazy and requiring users to compile tar files instead of offering simple .deb downloads.

It's things like this that hamper the adoption of OS's like Ubuntu and unfortunately instead of working to resolve these Linux developers tend to put their fingers in their ears and go what issues when it comes to making this system more consumer friendly.

Edited by InlineSkate, 05 June 2011 - 02:22 PM.

[Frylock86]

Kill me for saying this, but I think XP is actually quite a good OS for netbooks given that the user doesn't load it up with crapware.

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Edited by Frylock86, 05 June 2011 - 03:39 PM.

[yanike]

My issue with Linux and I know it isn't necessarily the fault of the OS itself is the plugins both Flash and Java run like alpha releases they are poorly optimized.

My second issue with it is some developers getting lazy and requiring users to compile tar files instead of offering simple .deb downloads.

Firefox seems to be the one having some Flash issues on 64-bit, which is fixable. As for Opera, flash works great in it and Chrome. As for Java and JavaScript, I can't recall experiencing an issue on Ubuntu.

For your second issue: getdeb.net
GetDeb is an unofficial project with the mission to provide the latest open source and freeware applications for the current Ubuntu Linux release, in an easy to install manner.

I've mentioned them before in a prior thread. Also, the software center is somewhat keeping up to date with stuff, but not as much as getdeb. Users of Linux have easier access to programs than Windows users.

Edited by yanike, 07 June 2011 - 03:38 AM.