Thread: ASUS leaving Linux...in a bad-taste way
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2009-06-12 , 23:06
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Originally Posted by notnarb View Post
Complete overreaction. Next to no one purchased an eee for the built in linux distro (Xandros) - it sucked pretty hard. XP is much harder to get installable from a flash drive than most common linux distros, and if you are going to be overwriting Xandros anyways does it really make a difference? The only real issue I see is people being butthurt about having to pay for a 15 dollar XP licence - most of whom are just people who wanted to pirate Windows to save some money. Yes, for those who strive for a life independent of Windows, that does suck a little.

Now if they provided a linux distro worth keeping, it would be a different story...
I agree Xandros did suck pretty hard. My friend who got the first EEEPC gave up on Xandros within days and install a modified version of Ubuntu customized for the EEEPC. He was happy with it till they came out with another EEEPC (and by that time, his was getting pretty dated and he was annoyed at the small screen). Sold that to someone else, and bought the new EEEPC netbook which came with XP. Tried that for a week, hated it and wiped it and installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix I think. He didn't even partition XP in a way to keep it as a backup or whatever. That or the custom EEE Ubuntu version. That seems to work better than XP or Xandros it seems (for him at least).
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...