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Asus set to debut volume shipments of the $199 EEE PC

Asus has announced it intends to begin shipping the ultra low-cost EEE PC in September. According to Asus, the E’s in the title stand for “Easy to learn”, “Excellent Internet”, and “Excellent mobile computing experience.” Asus reportedly plans to ship up to 500,000 of these systems in 2007, and up to 3-5 million in 2008.

The EEE PC will be available at multiple price points, from $199 – $369, with the $349 model targeting the US mainstream. Overall specifications on the EEE are as follows:

• 7″ LCD Display
• 900MHz Celeron-M ULV (Ultra Low Voltage) 353
• Intel 910 Chipset
• 512MB DDR2-400 RAM
• 4, 8, or 16GB solid-state storage
• ASUS-customized, Xandros-derived Linux OS
• Dimensions: 225×165x21-35mm
• Weight: ~2 lbs
• Colors: White, Black

The variations in price are almost certainly due to the size of the solid state storage drive available within the unit. At a potential $199 price point, the EEE PC could offer some significant competition to the OLPC initiative, but we won’t be able to directly compare the two units until we have shipping hardware available. By concentrating on the $349 model first, Asus seems to be focusing on establishing a brand and market presence in the sub-notebook market first, rather than attempting to go head-to-head with the OLPC’s mandate of providing a useful computer to the developing nations of the world.

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Windows Vista has probably created the single biggest opportunity for the Linux desktop to take market share, Cole Crawford, an IT strategist at Dell, said in an address titled, “The Linux Desktop—Fact, FUD or Fantasy?” at the annual Linux World Conference & Expo here.
For example, a number of companies have moved back to Windows XP after deploying Vista, Crawford said, before quoting Scott Granneman, an author, entrepreneur and adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, as saying, “To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just have to work on it.”
Microsoft has also owned the desktop for more than 15 years, Crawford said, “and so the only way for them to go is down. But Linux can only go up, and its growth potential is enormous. While Linux only has 1 percent of share on the desktop versus Microsoft’s more than 90 percent, that is changing, and the Linux desktop is expected to gain some share over the next two years,” he said.

The number of developers targeting Windows decreased by 12 percent in the last year, while their targeting of Linux has increased by 34 percent over the same period, recently released information from Evans Data shows, Crawford said.

The interoperability agreements that Microsoft has signed with Linux vendors, from Novell to Xandros and Linspire, have also had largely positive results so far, he said, adding that another plus was the fact that Linux development has shifted to a model in which a significant portion of the kernel is being developed by corporate entities.

On the downside, Crawford said, was the fact that no one actually owns

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Ubuntu plus Dell equals better support for devices in Linux

One of the best things that has happened to Linux enthusiasts the world over is the confluence of two big players one in the Linux arena (Ubuntu aka Canonical) and the other in the PC hardware space (Dell). And the end users have already started reaping the benefits.

The benefits include device driver support for hardware components which were otherwise not compatible with Linux. A couple of years back, I had to struggle getting my internal modem based on a conexant chip to work with Linux. These internal modems are infamously known as winmodems because they delegate some of its job to the parent operating system and work flawlessly only in Windows.

Because they were not full modems, most of them are incompatible with Linux and are as good as paper weight. I have documented how I got my internal modem to work with Linux with some difficulty.

Now the good news is that Dell has released device drivers for the conexant internal modems for their E1505n and 1420n machines which is available here for download.

The driver is provided as a deb package and so will be compatible with other Debian based Linux distributions.

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Canonical, Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced that it won Enterprise Open Source Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Award for the “Best Linux Distribution,” voted on by members of the open source community. The award was announced at the 2007 Enterprise Open Source Conference in New York.

New York, NY (PRWEB) July 9, 2007 — Canonical, Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced that it won Enterprise Open Source Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Award for the “Best Linux Distribution,” voted on by members of the open source community.

The winners of the Readers’ Choice Awards were revealed by SYS-CON, the parent publishing company for Enterprise Open Source Magazine, at the second annual Enterprise Open Source Conference in New York last week. This year the Enterprise Open Source Conference was co-located with the SOA World Conference & Expo 2007.

“The Ubuntu community and our end-users strive to create and work with a version of Linux that is simple, elegant and easy to use,” said Jane Silber, director of Operations, Canonical Ltd. “The Readers’ Choice Award is another proof point that we are achieving our goals and meeting the needs of the greater computing community.”

The Enterprise Open Source Readers’ Choice Awards program is community-driven, and participating products are nominated and chosen by the readers of Enterprise Open Source Magazine and the open source community at large.

About Canonical and Ubuntu
Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is a global organisation headquartered in Europe committed to the development, distribution and support of open source software products and communities. World-class 24×7 commercial support for Ubuntu is available through Canonical’s global support team and partners. Since its launch in October 2004 Ubuntu has become one of the most highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users around the world. Ubuntu will always be free to download, free to use and free to distribute to others. With these goals in mind, Ubuntu aims to be the most widely used Linux system, and is the centre of a global open source software ecosystem.

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Back in the early days of Personal Computers ( 1980’s era) a workstation was a high end , large , heavy computer with 1,000 k ( a kilobyte which is 1/000 of a megabyte, a gigabyte is 1,000 megabytes).

Cost approximately $ 10,000. A PC was small and insignificant in comparison – 64 k of memory ( versus 1,000 k) , a tiny small computer screen, a floppy or two. Cost $ 4,000 vs $ 10,000.

Even though modern computers are speed supercomputers in comparison to yesteryear’s computers the modern workstation is ahead of the Joneses as well. You can never keep up.

Maybe it is the software the workstations use. Most workstations are designed to run UNIX or Linux based operating systems. PCs run Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh software.

Nothing said in stone that your new computer cannot run Linix or a Linux distro as well as Windows and be dual boot.

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AROS
I have a confession to make. I never owned an Amiga. Back when Amiga owners had a multi-tasking GUI running on top of a microkernel, I was using Windows 3.0 on MS-DOS. And I’m still bitter.

For those of us who missed out the first time, the AROS Research Operating System (AROS) provides some surrogate nostalgia. For its era, the AROS OS was an impressive piece of work. It ran on very slow hardware (by today’s standards), but still managed to provide an impressive user experience. Of course, this came at a cost.

Perhaps the biggest price paid by the AROS OS was the lack of protected memory. This is seen as vital these days; the idea that one rogue application could trample over another’s memory seems remarkably quaint. Swapping, something that usually goes hand-in-hand with virtual memory, is similarly absent.

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