Linux loses ground on netbooks -- can Android save it?

android OS on netbooks

I believe netbooks are a big reason why google put so much money into the wimax network launch. I believe the android OS will be more efficient and secure and will support more open source software that the wimax network supports. Netbooks will get marketshare from both notebooks and palm users. The wimax network is flexible and friendly to platforms like the android and non x86 based systems. I am speaking from experience of using the wimax network in portland oregon.

Thanks for promoting Linux

I like that the "Looking through Windows" guy is worried about Linux. Although it may be just bait to attract page hits you quickly get a flood of replies from loyal Linux users. These Linux-is-dead articles are as silly as the Year-of-Linux articles. Try
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
you'll learn that Linux is being used and still growing in popularity.

What does a free software

What does a free software do, it copies what a licensed software already does and adds some bits and pieces.

In that process it also kills innovation and research of those who sell licensed copies.

BSD saves Linux?

Maybe half of BSD (NetBSD/OpenBSD libc, userland, superpages and some drivers in Linux kernel, ...) in Android will save Linux, well this would I call irony :-)

It's not just Preston. All

It's not just Preston. All over the tech press there are stories of Linux being defeated on netbooks and the triumph of Windows. Interesting spin given that Linux had no share a couple of years ago and Microsoft by their own admission to their stockholders is got killed financially clawing back their market share from Linux in the netbook market. When W7 arrives they are going to try and make money by shipping a low-end W7 SKU and then trying to up-sell you to a function version. Lots of people are going to love that one. Wonder how many people are running Microsoft Office on their netbook? Software that's more expensive than the machine it runs. Yeah, Microsoft is winning against open source. Keep telling yourself that. Hey, someone's got to keep their stock price dropping another 40% in the next 12 months.

Ballmer says Linux is Bigger Competitor than Apple

Just a few weeks ago, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer publicized that Linux is a bigger competitor to Windows than Apple...

http://tinyurl.com/debyky

:D

Quit feeding the troll people

I used to actually read Preston's drivel. But now, like once was the case with Enderle (whatever happened to him anyway), I figured all that was happening was silly attempts to generate page hits. Linux will do just fine. All you have to do is look at the worldwide picture to see the inescapable rising demographic tide.

So nothing to see here folks. Let's just all move along.

Preston Grella are you still whining?

Preston, you are really a piece of work. What did those Catholic nuns do to you to make you such a sociopath? Rather than write something helpful you continue to play the "useful idiot" for Micro$oft, bashing Linux as you cling to a bloated, poor excuse for an operating system. And as you can't stop complaining, I shall here after dubbed it "Whindows" in your honor. While Windows has some uses (a decreasing number as time goes by) some of us prefer an operating system that does not cost consumers huge sums of money to obtain or "upgrade".
As a missionary to Africa, I put Ubuntu on 20 used PCs and was able to provide a very nice suite of applications to people who earn about $2 a day. They would be hard pressed to afford a Windows operating system, the obligatory and obnoxious anti-virus software or an incredibly expensive "office suite". Apart from the hardware and my time, I could do this for free. Try that with Windows for less than $5,000 or $10,000 Preston.
Though I speak like this I am thankful for the Windows operating systems because without them, I would be out of work. I make my money rescuing Windows PCs from malware and viruses (a problem I have yet to have with Linux).
Preston... you need to grow up or at least get back on your meds.

So something greater than 0% is a loss, you a banker too?

Stop watching the shiny ponies, Linux 3 years ago shipped on 0% of systems, so shipping on even 1 system is an increase of market share.

Mindless drivel, more systems ship with windows and end up with linux than the other way around, mostly cause Microsoft makes it such as pain in the Ass, rather than the other way around.

Bottom line, Don't tell me how linux cant change the world tell me what it is your expecting your Microsoft sales channel Manager is going to do to complete against a truly Free product?

Are we done yet?
Tnt

Statistics of sales don't equal usage.

I dare say 90% of the people who use Linux on the desktop bought a computer with Windows and replaced Windows with Linux, because that's what was available and priced reasonably. Until netbooks came along, even the vendors who offered computers without Windows sold those computers for the same price or even more than comparably configured Windows computers. So what's one to do? Pay more to avoid the Windows tax? Most would just go ahead and buy the Windows computer and wipe it out to use their preferred OS. They can always use that Windows license for something, or give it to a friend or sell it on an auction. I suppose the difference in price was paid for by selling drive space to all those software companies that wanted their trial versions factory installed on the computer. In the case of netbooks, I've considered buying the Windows version just to get the bigger hard drive and more RAM out of the box, then, as others here have indicated, go ahead and install my own Linux on it.