http://www.AskReaMaor.com/linux-and-unix/linux-pcs-the-state-of-the-market/ Your one-stop-blog for all latest Technology News updates and interpretation, heck, we'll even teach you how to Make Money Online and wrap it up with some WordPress blogging tips. Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:42:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.AskReaMaor.com/linux-and-unix/linux-pcs-the-state-of-the-market/comment-page-1/#comment-4677 Yvonne Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:30:06 +0000 http://www.AskReaMaor.com/linux-and-unix/linux-pcs-the-state-of-the-market/#comment-4677 lovely article, do we forget that google is already being raked over the coals for anti competivness in Europe. Agree with the OLPC idea.. but who is going to support them or keep them to date.. who is going to pay for that. lovely article, do we forget that google is already being raked over the coals for anti competivness in Europe. Agree with the OLPC idea.. but who is going to support them or keep them to date.. who is going to pay for that.

]]> http://www.AskReaMaor.com/linux-and-unix/linux-pcs-the-state-of-the-market/comment-page-1/#comment-4659 JW Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:06:23 +0000 http://www.AskReaMaor.com/linux-and-unix/linux-pcs-the-state-of-the-market/#comment-4659 This is quite an interesting topic. I think it will continue to gain momentum, driven, as you said, by kids instead of adults. Though there are undoubtedly adults who would agree, a $200 computer is hard to beat, it is the younger, poorer contingent of the population that will really drive the sales of these machines up. Further down the road, however, when people realize that Linux and other open source projects like gOS are offering extremely competitive alternatives to the current bipartisan OS domination of Microsoft and Apple, there could very well be a mass movement towards the free operating systems. Part of what will convince people that these open source offerings are the way to go is their ease of use and nearly idiot-proof setup process. Like you said, what better way to bring open source technology to the masses then to spruce up a rock solid (and very popular) linux distribution with some eye-candy and package it with the means to download for free whatever the user might need – it is the ultimate in simplistic computing. This is quite an interesting topic. I think it will continue to gain momentum, driven, as you said, by kids instead of adults. Though there are undoubtedly adults who would agree, a $200 computer is hard to beat, it is the younger, poorer contingent of the population that will really drive the sales of these machines up. Further down the road, however, when people realize that Linux and other open source projects like gOS are offering extremely competitive alternatives to the current bipartisan OS domination of Microsoft and Apple, there could very well be a mass movement towards the free operating systems. Part of what will convince people that these open source offerings are the way to go is their ease of use and nearly idiot-proof setup process. Like you said, what better way to bring open source technology to the masses then to spruce up a rock solid (and very popular) linux distribution with some eye-candy and package it with the means to download for free whatever the user might need – it is the ultimate in simplistic computing.

]]> http://www.AskReaMaor.com/linux-and-unix/linux-pcs-the-state-of-the-market/comment-page-1/#comment-4657 Richard Chapman Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:11:56 +0000 http://www.AskReaMaor.com/linux-and-unix/linux-pcs-the-state-of-the-market/#comment-4657 I'm just wondering how they get such a graphic intensive desktop like Enlightenment to run smoothly on hardware that only costs $200. Or is it that my "high-end" computer, which was purchased 4 years ago, is now only worth $200 too? I’m just wondering how they get such a graphic intensive desktop like Enlightenment to run smoothly on hardware that only costs $200. Or is it that my “high-end” computer, which was purchased 4 years ago, is now only worth $200 too?

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