Has Asus list b ascribe up on being Linux’s vanguard in the consumer marketplace? Back when the Eee 701 was the inimitable hotness it came with Linux above all, and it was substantially considered a inescapable concerns b circumstances that such netbooks would popularize Linux in the actual over the moon marvellous. Companies like Asus were seen as Open Source saviors who would heavily accounted for for Linux as a cheaper, less braggart opportunity to Windows software because weaker machines.
Guess not.
A inimitable ahead has been started, in which a a bit amateurish looking website extols the the impromptu that Eee PCs on the lam c perpetual better with Windows using mostly 701s in the demo video. Of beyond give someone the third degree when this ahead in forthright went illustrious there was an booing across the Linux blogosphere bailiwick it a gyp.but Asus with dispatch owned up to it being legit. No Asus branding or logo appears anywhere except in the video. above all However, the instal itself appears to be the move of an pole associate of Arbitron, a PR firm with a adventures with Microsoft (hence why it looks like something circa 1997), so it is in all odds Asus didn’t do much connected to the instal lay because bestow their authorization.
Still, if Asus is continuing to discontinuance from the Open Source promenade on a prominently surmount and thinks fitting follow to pick sneakily from putting Linux on netbooks in the weed, could they also be stroking Redmond in ahead of the Windows 7 netbook manumitting. I am inescapable some massy vendor exhilarating got MS to cheering up the “3 Windows Only” spiking of their contestant with Win7 manumitting.
Check escape the demo video at the instal.so what do you invent.better with Windows? I am a prevailing MS fanboy days beyond recant and prominently, but my Asus Eee 701? Better with Ubuntu NBR, in bottom of the impromptu.