Linux risks netbooks defeat to Microsoft
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sat, 08/09/2008 - 05:47.
Ubuntu-based things do pretty well in techie circles. The consumer space is a different beast, as gOS discovered when mega retailer Wal-Mart blamed poor demand from those sporting baseball caps and mullets for its decision to stop selling PCs loaded with its version on Linux earlier this year.
David Liu, chief executive of Emeryville, California-based gOS, is undaunted. Indeed he is optimistic that Linux can succeed in the consumer market, on "next generation" appliances and the increasingly popular netbooks that offer the "best experiences". To that end, gOS has launched version 3.0 of its consumer-focused Linux operating system, which packs in Google Gadgets.
But Liu also sees a threat on the horizon. Why? OEMs are only flirting with Linux in the consumer space, and that leaves the path clear for Microsoft on netbooks and appliances to duplicate its PC-based Windows empire.
"Linux companies like ourselves need to work closely with people making the next wave of appliance or netbooks... we need to seize it before other people fill the gap," Liu told a LinuxWorld panel on life, now that OEMs are shipping Linux PCs.
Netbooks bios not for lazy distros ? Vista less threads ?
Vista is too big for Netbooks, because they have deterministic threads taking too much dram space.
Otherwise Vista will couple to netbook bios much better. Liniting to 7 threads(IE6.0/7.0/8.0), or 32 threads will make Vista much more nimble even with hyper-V.
Linux is not realtime oriented, whereas Vista is. Properly used realtime operating system can do download accelerator on edgeQam channels simultaneously in parallel processing.
Linux Mentavista module if compiled can do the same as Vista operating system. So, don't complain, it is just applying the realtime benefits of multi channel data transfer segmented parallel processing. Novl has enterprise solution SleRT with MontaVista or redHawk( ccur). Ubuntu do not. RedHat has it, because they put the MonteVista module into Linux kernels.