Der Laptop XO für Schulkinder in Entwicklungsländern wird allmählich fertig, Intel springt mit dem Classmate auf den fahrenden Zug auf — doch Privatanwender in westlichen Ländern wollen nicht leer ausgehen. Zu verführerisch sind die Vorteile dieser kleinen Geräte. Erste Exemplare des 200-Dollar-Laptops von Asus sind verfügbar — Heise schaut ihn sich an — und Tweaktown hinein.
Quelle: Tweaktown, Heise Online News
Kontext: Forbes, EeeUser: Eee Blog, Heise Online News, Gap News; Wiki zum XO-Laptop, Engadget: Everex Laptop, Heise Online News
Kommentar (engl.):
The XO features its own variant of Linux OS, Classmate has a Mandriva (or Windows XP), Asus Eee PC brings another Linux variant. Now, everex hits the scene — with another Linux, this time an Ubuntu variant.
While Apple is great in developing their own operating system, I think, scattering lots of Linux variants across all the different hardware manufacturers is not that a good idea: While it might be relatively simple to develop new hardware and to adopt Linux to ride it — what about upgrades for the system?
As simple as it might be to initially gird any hardware by a Linux, as hard it might become to keep that Linux up to date. Either that ends in a geek solution, where customers need to sweep the original Linux variants from their systems to get enabled to update and get security holes patches, or the manufacturers have to take that part.
Are the manufacturers actually willing to maintain their flavor of a distribution? — If not, and if geeks need to hit the scene to replace original software by upgradable systems, the hardware might fail to survive in the market. Alternative might be to standardize a common code base, e.g. fork directly from Debian or support Debian first hand.
Abgelegt unter : Bildung, Infrastrukturen, Kommentar, Wertschöpfung, Öffentlichkeit | Mit Tag(s) versehen: Apple, Asus, Classmate PC, Eee PC, Intel, Linux distributions, OLPC, Quelle: Heise Online News, Quelle: Tweaktown, Taschenrechner, XO
