On Wednesday 26 Aug 2009 12:36:03 Morgan Storey wrote: > Unfortunately from what I have read a lot of the manufacturers > moved to XP on the slightly higher models, and models with larger > disks, and a lot of those sales where XP machines. So much so that > MS continued shipping XP and supporting it. They have now even made > a cutdown version of 7 for netbooks. But it is progress, there are > a heap of people out there using Linux on thei netbooks, the missus > was already a convert and probably only bought her netbook cause > she knew everything would just work with Linux.
Yes. As part of the same discussion that I've had with a lot of people I found myself having a long chat to Mark Shuttleworth one day at an event in Brussels. He agreed with me that you can't get hold of any real figures for desktop use of GNU/Linux. However, it seems to be that thanks to the netbook penetration of the commercial desktop market is starting to happen. It's becoming acceptable and easy to use. I even managed to get someone from SuSE in Nuremberg to agree with me about this. As a side note: Fujitsu are saying that they might have to lay off 1200 people in the UK due to lack of sales. -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
