<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Here is a posting from the Rochester LUG:<br><br>At a meeting I attended last night a friend and I were really bored.<br>
She has a Toshiba <span class="il">netbook</span> with Windows 7 and I
have an EEE 1005HAB<br>
with Ubuntu Network Edition.<br>
So we decided to have <span class="il">netbook</span> races.<br>
First system to login prompt.<br>
First to be fully up.<br>
First to connect to the local free wifi.<br>
First to boot and open a browser and go to the meeting website.<br>
First to boot and run a flash in youtube. A few others. You get the<br>
picture, we were bored, she's an engineer, I'm an engineer so we have<br>
to race.<br>
<br>
As you might guess, my EEE even with an older cpu just smoked the Win<br>
7 system. In every way. What you have to do to get connected to a<br>
free wifi network.... What a pain. Plus in comparison to the logical<br>
beauty that is the UNE desktop the Win 7 looks cluttery. Her words.<br>
<br>
She's going to bring her system over this weekend for me to wipe and<br>
install UNE.<br>
I don't see much info on this system with Ubuntu. Anybody have an
experience?<br><br>The WOW continues beyond Vista<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><span class="intro">Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? -- T.S. Elliot.</span><span class="intro"><br></span>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>==================================<br>John Eddie Kerr | Guelph, Ontario <br>==================================<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 6/23/10, Insurance Squared Inc. <i><gcooke@insurancesquared.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Insurance Squared Inc. <gcooke@insurancesquared.com><br>Subject: [kwlug-disc] Video killed the radio star/netbook battle<br>To: "KWLUG discussion" <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org><br>Date: Wednesday, June
23, 2010, 10:14 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Two questions then:<br>1) Did linux actually lose the netbook battle? I haven't looked at netbooks in a year or two, and when I was shopping, there was some choice. Is that choice now gone?<br>2) if so, is there actually any way folks such as ourselves can actually change that? I'm of the perhaps uninformed opinion that some linux flavours are a huge advantage over MS on netbooks with the potential low overhead, instant on, etc. I have some ideas that the royal 'we' could do, but perhaps I'm dreaming. Curious if others have thoughts.<br><br>On 23/06/10 05:04 PM, Paul Nijjar wrote:<br>> I guess Linux really did lose the netbook<br>> battle.<br>> <br>> <br><br>-- <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kwlug-disc_kwlug.org mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:kwlug-disc_kwlug.org@kwlug.org"
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