Paul Sterne

Netbook Sales Projections Are Way Low: Quick Reality Checks

Interesting article but you overlooked one of the pioneers in the Linux netbook space, Xandros. Xandros is the industrial class GNU/Linux OS shipped in the Asus eeePC and it is way ahead of Ubuntu in market penetration and customer sat. Having worked with Ubuntu on a number of ports, I was not impressed by the quality of their engineering -- they sell more hype than substance. I would expect Xandros to ship a commercial version of a LInux desktop OS on ARM before the other market participants.